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Most studies on the green tax reform issue point out that environmental taxes exacerbate pre-existing tax distortions, thereby increasing the welfare costs associated with the overall tax code. As a result, the optimal environmental tax should lie below the Pigovian level (or marginal social...
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on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently … lower levels of employment, the affected labor force is seemingly small. Second, such caregiving tends to lower the quality …
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significantly negative effect of exposure during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more years after …
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persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …
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In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...
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Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … disorders. By contrast, non-employment and retirement are generally worse for mental health than employment, and overemployment … has a negative effect on health. These findings stress the importance of employment and of adequate working conditions for …
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health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a "purged" health measure similar to …
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, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …
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We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal …
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specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health …
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