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- Eliason, Marcus, 1973, et al.
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Does Job Loss Shorten Life?
- 2009
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Ingår i: The Journal of Human Resources. - 0022-166X. ; 44:2, s. 277-302
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Eliason, Marcus, et al.
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Does Job Loss Shorten Life?
- 2009
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Ingår i: The Journal of human resources. - : University of Wisconsin Press. - 0022-166X .- 1548-8004. ; 44:2, s. 277-302
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the impact of job loss on overall and cause-specific mortality. Using linked employer-employee data, we identified the workers displaced due to all establishment closures in Sweden in 1987 and 1988. Hence, we have extended the case study approach, which has dominated the plant closure literature. The overall mortality risk among men increased by 44 percent during the first four years following job loss, while there was no impact on either female overall mortality or in the longer run. For both sexes, however, there was an about twofold short-run increase in suicides and alcohol-related mortality.
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- Rooth, Dan-Olof
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Obesity, attractiveness and differential treatment in hiring : a field experiment
- 2009
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Ingår i: The Journal of human resources. - 0022-166X .- 1548-8004. ; 44:3, s. 710-735
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study presents evidence of differential treatment in the hiring of obese individuals in the Swedish labor market. Fictitious applications were sent to real job openings. The applications were sent in pairs, where one facial photo of an otherwise identical applicant was manipulated to show the individual as obese. Applications sent with the weight-manipulated photo had a significantly lower callback response for an interview: Six percentage points lower for men and eight percentage points lower for women. This differential treatment occurs differently for men and women: The results for men are driven by attractiveness, while the results for women are driven by obesity.
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- Åslund, Olof, et al.
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Peer Effects in Welfare Dependence : Quasi-experimental evidence
- 2009
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Ingår i: The Journal of human resources. - 0022-166X .- 1548-8004. ; 44:3, s. 798-825
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines peer effects in welfare use among refugees. We exploit a Swedish refugee placement policy, which generated exogenous variation in peer group composition. Our analysis distinguishes between the quantity of contacts - the number of individuals of the same ethnicity - and the quality of contacts - welfare use among members of the ethnic group. Long-term welfare dependence increases if the individual is placed in a welfare dependent community. The number of contacts is either irrelevant or negatively related to welfare receipt; not controlling for residential self-selection yields the opposite conclusion. The results are very similar across household types and in different parts of the predicted earnings distribution.
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