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substantially. During the same period, employer provision of health insurance has undergone substantial changes in extent and form … 17-20 percent of the decrease in employer-provided health insurance between 1983 and 1997. … Wood Johnson Foundation survey, we investigate the effects of unionization on employer provision of health benefits. We …
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We investigate the effects of employer-provided health insurance on the labor supply of married women. Because health … magnitude of this effect. Our reduced-form labor supply models indicate a strong negative effect of husbands' health insurance … insurance may work long hours in order to acquire coverage for their families. We use data from the April 1993 Current …
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substantially. During the same period, employer provision of health insurance has undergone substantial changes in extent and form … 17-20 percent of the decrease in employer-provided health insurance between 1983 and 1997. … Wood Johnson Foundation survey, we investigate the effects of unionization on employer provision of health benefits. We …
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stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes … district and quarter of birth, and their health and labour market outcomes observed at fifty and sixty years old. Differences …
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wages have stagnated. Though real wages in the factories have declined employment therein has not increased. Interestingly …, both wages and employment have increased in the mid-sized units. The relationship is therefore neither unidirectional nor … sector has seen the most sweeping changes. It is now being suggested that the current jobless growth is due to high wages …
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Employment creation and wage security have been primary goals of developing countries both from a national and a … regional perspective. The present paper analyses the wage-employment scenario in India in the post-reform period with special … regular employment, and shifting in favour of tertiary sector jobs – the pace decelerating in the second half of the study …
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countries, namely; Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, concludes that on return, the employment status of REMs … were in general worse off than in their host country with high share of casualisation, self employment and unemployment in … the crisis year and a decline in their average monthly earnings. The analysis suggests that those who found employment on …
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Recent studies have indicated that the terms 'NAIRU' (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) and 'natural rate of unemployment' are not interchangeable. While NAIRU is an empirical macroeconomic relationship estimated via a Phillips curve, the natural rate is an equilibrium condition...
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equitable development convergence in wages and earnings is therefore desirable. This paper explores trends and patterns in wage …
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