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On the Extent of Re-Entitlement Effects in Unemployment Compensation

Ortega, Javier; Rioux, Laurence - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

A dynamic labor matching economy is presented, in which the unemployed are either entitled to unemployment insurance … (UI) or unemployment assistance (UA), and the employees are either eligible for UI or UA upon future separations … unemployment, while raising UI benefits harms the unemployed on assistance and raises unemployment. Easier eligibility for UI also …

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Does the Color of the Collar Matter? Firm Specific Human Capital and Post-Displacement Outcomes

Schwerdt, Guido; Ichino, Andrea; Ruf, Oliver; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers...

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A Validation Study of Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on the Third Generation Offspring's Economic and Health Outcomes Potentially Driven by Epigenetic Imprinting

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

At the crossroads of economics and human biology, this paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent studies have found a negative association between conditions at ages 8-12 and the...

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Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Van … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...

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Shattered Dreams: The Effects of Changing the Pension System Late in the Game

de Grip, Andries; Lindeboom, Maarten; Montizaan, Raymond - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper assesses the impact of a dramatic reform of the Dutch pension system on mental health, savings behavior and retirement expectations of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950 or later face a substantial reduction in their...

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Obesity, Unhappiness, and The Challenge of Affluence: Theory and Evidence

Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Is affluence a good thing? The book The Challenge of Affluence by Avner Offer (2006) argues that economic prosperity weakens self-control and undermines human well-being. Consistent with a pessimistic view, we show that psychological distress has been rising through time in modern Great Britain....

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The Effect of Non-Standard Employment on Mental Health in Britain

Bardasi, Elena; Francesconi, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

This paper explores the relationship between non-standard types of employment and mental health. The analysis uses data on workers from the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Study, 1991-97. Four different types of non-standard employment (non-standard ontracts, places, times, and...

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Sheepskin or Prozac: The Causal Effect of Education on Mental Health

Chevalier, Arnaud; Feinstein, Leon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health, we rely on a rich longitudinal dataset that contains...

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The Economics of Grief

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish population, combining information on the date and cause of death with parents' labor market outcomes, health...

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Evidence on the Long Shadow of Poor Mental Health across Three Generations

Johnston, David W.; Schurer, Stefanie; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Individuals suffering from mental health problems are often severely limited in their social and economic functioning. Mental health problems can develop early in life, are frequently chronic in nature, and have an established hereditary component. The extent to which mental illness runs in...

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