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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?

Brewer, Mike - 2009

This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is basic security, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...

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Unemployment: The silent epidemic

Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2017

This paper examines two key aspects of unemployment-its propagation mechanism and socioeconomic costs. It identifies a … mechanism and the existing pecuniary and nonpecuniary costs of unemployment suggests a fundamental shift in the policy responses … effects of unemployment. The paper discusses several preventative features of the program. …

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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When does improving health raise GDP?

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Lester, Ashley; Weil, David N. - 2008

We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and age-structure of the population, capital accumulation,...

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

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Health, longevity and pension reform

Laun, Tobias; Markussen, Simen; Vigtel, Trond Christian; … - 2018

In this paper, we study alternative pension reforms designed to achieve fiscal sustainability in the face of demographic change. We are particularly interested in the heterogeneous effects across demographic groups, as improvements in health and longevity have not been uniform across the...

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Wealth-income ratios in a small, late-industrializing, welfare-state economy: Sweden, 1810-2014

Waldenström, Daniel - 2015

smaller countries that were historically backward and developed a different set of political and economic institutions during … political institutions for the long-run evolution of wealth-income ratios. …

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Individual and structural influences on the entrepreneurial activities of academics

Bijedić, Teita; Maaß, Frank; Schröder, Christian; … - 2016

contract incentives, wage satisfaction), (ii) institutions (e.g. technology transfer offices, patent exploitation agencies … support infrastructure for start-ups in German academic institutions, these services are little known amongst their staff …

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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019

We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...

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Undoing gender with institutions: Lessons from the German division and reunification

Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …

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