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Severance Pay Mandates: Firing Costs, Hiring Costs, and Firm Avoidance Behaviors

Parsons, Donald O. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The potentially adverse labor market effects of severance pay mandates are a continuing source of policy concern. In a seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple – a bonding scheme would do – but that empirically the...

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Health Behavior and Accident Risk: Obesity Is Associated with the Future Risk of Heavy Truck Crashes among Newly Recruited Commercial Drivers

Anderson, Jon; Govada, Manjari; Steffen, Tricia K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This study estimates the dose-response relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and crash risk in commercial motor vehicle operators. Intake data was collected on 744 new truck drivers who were training for their commercial driver's licenses at a school operated by the cooperating trucking...

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Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession

Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th century. In this paper, we examine if the previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health...

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Do Occupational Demands Explain the Educational Gradient in Health?

Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte; Künn-Nelen, Annemarie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The aim of this paper is to investigate to what extent occupation-specific demands explain the relationship between education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German Microcensus 2009 data with a dataset including detailed...

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Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality

Kuhn, Andreas; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

endogenous selection, we exploit an exogenous change in unemployment insurance rules in Austria that allowed workers in eligible …

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Healthy Habits: The Connection between Diet, Exercise, and Locus of Control

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationship between individuals' locus of control and their decisions to exercise regularly, eat well, drink moderately, and avoid tobacco. Our primary goal is to assess the relative importance of the alternative pathways that potentially link locus of control to healthy...

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Losing Heart? The Effect of Job Displacement on Health

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Job reallocation is considered to be a key characteristic of well-functioning labor markets, as more productive firms grow and less productive ones contract or close. However, despite its potential benefits for the economy, there are significant costs that are borne by displaced workers. We...

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Understanding Severance Pay

Parsons, Donald O. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

severance pay emerges as a natural component of job displacement insurance packages, serving both as scheduled reemployment wage … insurance and, if search moral hazard is a problem, as scheduled UI. Like any firm-financed separation expenditure, severance … cost distortions by substituting severance savings plans, which have zero firing costs. Indeed severance insurance plans …

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Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Gielen, Anne C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter …

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Moral Hazard and Less Invasive Medical Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease: The Case of Cigarette Smoking

Margolis, Jesse; Hockenberry, Jason; Grossman, Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Comparisons of the effectiveness of two common procedures for Coronary Artery Disease: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). Evidence indicates that CABG – the more invasive procedure – leads to superior long term outcomes for otherwise similar...

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