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central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In …If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of … this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the …
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examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …
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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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to assess the impact of service-linked severance benefits on age-specific employment levels. The model permits design of …
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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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urban manufacturing firms. The impact of HIV on average wages is positive but imprecisely estimated. In contrast, HIV has a … large positive impact on the skill premium. The impact of HIV on the wages of low skilled workers is insignificantly …
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This paper reviews current issues in youth labour markets in developed countries. It argues that young people aged 16-25 have been particularly hard hit during the current recession. Using the USA and UK as cast studies, it analyses both causes and effects of youth unemployment using micro-data....
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, 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, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age … of 40. A second observation is that job insecurity is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and health …
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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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significantly negative effect of exposure during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more years after …
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