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Five Issues in the Design of Income Support Mechanisms: The Case of Italy

Colombino, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Differently from most European countries and despite the recommendations on the part of the European Commission, Italy still misses a sufficiently systematic and nationwide mechanism of income support. In this paper we want to explore the feasibility, the desirability and the features of a...

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Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidizing Market-Contracted Household Work

Brück, Tilman; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and...

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Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice?

Connolly, Helen; Gottschalk, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

It is widely acknowledged that tax and transfer policies can affect employment. This paper explores a different potential impact of transfer policy by asking whether subsidies also affect job duration and wage growth. We provide an analytical framework that identifies causal links between...

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Assessing the Impact of a Wage Subsidy for Single Parents on Social Assistance in Canada

Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the "Action Emploi" (AE) program aimed at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE offered a generous wage subsidy that could last up to three years to recipients who found a full-time job within twelve months. The program was...

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Transition with Heterogeneous Labor

Balla, Katalin; Köllo, János; Simonovits, András - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We extend the benchmark model of Aghion and Blanchard (1994), assuming two segments of the emerging private sector that differ in workers’ productivity. We look at the paths of employment, wages, taxes, labor costs and profits during and after the transition, up until the shock is fully...

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The Civil Rights Act and the Earnings of Lower Income Hispanic Men in the 1960's

Duleep, Harriet; Regets, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper uses Social Security longitudinal earnings records matched to Current Population Survey data to examine changes in the relative earnings of Hispanic men during a period of dramatic change in public and private policies toward race and ethnicity characterized by, but not limited to,...

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Do No-Loan Policies Change the Matriculation Patterns of Low-Income Students?

Waddell, Glen R.; Singell, Jr., Larry D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We empirically examine whether there is discernable variation in the matriculation patterns of low-income students at public flagship institutions in the United States around changes in institutional financial-aid policies that target resident, low-income students with need-based aid. While...

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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

, CABG, are more likely to improve their behavior – eating, exercise, smoking, and drinking – in a way that increases … behavior: smoking. We find that CABG patients are 12 percentage points more likely to quit smoking in the one-year period …

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Health Risk Factors among the Older European Populations: Personal and Country Effects

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; Neuman, Tzahi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol … effects of country-specific risk factors (country-level measures of smoking, obesity, and alcohol consumption) on the … obese individuals in the country. It appears that country-level smoking and obesity affect negatively aggregate country SAHS …

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Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior

Bauer, Thomas; Göhlmann, Silja; Sinning, Mathias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential … is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behavior between men and …

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