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. We find that subsidies to the costs of children expand the set of equilibria, making social security viable where it …
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This paper studies the labor market impacts of firm accommodation decisions and assesses implications for the design of social insurance for workplace disability. We leverage a unique workers' compensation (WC) program in Oregon that provides wage subsidies to firms for accommodating injured...
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Developmental disabilities are not rare among U.S. children and rates have been increasing in recent decades. The …
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If considered within the context of an overlapping-generations framework, pay-as-you-go pension systems turn out to be funded by the human capital embodied in subsequent generations. The failure to actually model public old-age security on this idea may, to a large degree, explain the current...
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The shrinking number of workers due to smaller young cohorts entering the labour market and large-scale outward … costs for educated women of having children. Policies, including access to affordable quality childcare countrywide, more … measures to escape poverty, acquire skills and integrate into the labour market. …
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This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we...
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The economic and psychological literatures have demonstrated that early investments (private and public) in children … countries, implying that mothers spend less time with their children and that families rely more on external sources of …
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We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health …
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