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prevent firms from conditioning wages on health conditions of their workers, and that prevent health insurance companies from …This paper constructs a dynamic model of health insurance to evaluate the short- and long run effects of policies that … charging individuals with adverse health conditions higher insurance premia. Our study is motivated by recent US legislation …
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The costs of mental ill-health for individuals, employers and society at large are enormous. Mental illness is … Health and Work) and nine country reports, this final synthesis report summarizes the findings from the participating …
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The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
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Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages. The reason given is that an increase in insider wages gives rise to a …
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dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …
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. The new jobs created by the MNCs were found in activities with relatively high productivity and wages. This suggests that …
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International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labour market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
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reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …
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