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's modeling of health insurance coverage under a tax credit and examining the sensitivity of the results to changes in the model … family for private health insurance would reduce the number of uninsured individuals by between 17.5 and 28 percent and … effects of health insurance tax credits and suggest that progress on the issue of tax credits for health insurance will …
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In many developed countries attempts to reform physicians payment schemes have failed. To analyze some of the difficulties, this paper studies reforms of payment schemes in situations such as the physician agency, where the quality of the good produced is imperfectly observable by the payer. We...
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This testimony describes the results of a study of the Employment Service (ES) conducted by Dr. Jacobson and Prof …
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paper applies new tools to the measure of multidimensional inequalities on wages, education and health. The multidimensional … as well. Education and health care have become less accessible due to increased costs linked to the decentralization of …
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Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On … either employment or income. The distribution of ill-health contributes to income inequality: a health shock is both more …
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lie below the Pigovian level (or marginal social damages). This article challenges this finding by arguing that health …
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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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determine impacts on employment, wages, and more. …
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.16 and 0.34, respectively), and controlling for employment size further reduces them (to 0.07 and 0.28). We also exploit the … unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …
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We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in …
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