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The Labor Market Effects of Introducing National Health Insurance : Evidence from Canada
Gruber, Jonathan - 1993
provinces. We examine monthly data on employment, wages, and hours across 8 industries and 10 provinces over the 1961- 1975 … period. We find that employment actually rose after the introduction of NHI; wages increased as well, while average hours …
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Methods versus Substance : Measuring the Effects of Technology Shocks on Hours
Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor - 2009
In this paper, we employ both calibration and modern (Bayesian) estimation methods to assess the role of neutral and … the labor supply elasticity. Both a calibration procedure that uses modern assessments of the Frisch elasticity and the … estimation procedures result in technology shocks accounting for 2% to 9% of the variation in hours worked in the data. We infer …
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Redistribution of Local Labor Market Shocks through Firms’ Internal Networks
Giroud, Xavier - 2016
Local labor market shocks are difficult to insure against. Using confidential micro data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database, we document that firms redistribute the employment impacts of local demand shocks across regions through their internal networks of...
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Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance
Blundell, Richard - 2017
, spouses' wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to …
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How Does Job-Protected Maternity Leave Affect Mothers' Employment and Infant Health?
Baker, Michael - 2005
Maternity leaves can affect mothers' and infants' welfare if they first affect the amount of time working women stay at home post birth. We provide new evidence of the labor supply effects of these leaves from an analysis of the introduction and expansion of job-protected maternity leave in...
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How Much Consumption Insurance in Bewley Models with Endogenous Family Labor Supply?
Wu, Chunzan - 2018
of consumption insurance against shocks to male and female wages, as estimated empirically by Blundell, Pistaferri and …
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Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks
Fadlon, Itzik - 2015
This paper provides new evidence on how household labor supply responds to fatal and severe non-fatal health shocks in the short- and medium-run. To identify the causal effects of these shock realizations, we leverage administrative data on families' health and labor market outcomes, and...
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Consumption Inequality and Family Labor Supply
Blundell, Richard - 2012
and find strong evidence of smoothing of males and females permanent shocks to wages. Once family labor supply, assets and …
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Does Employer-Provided Health Insurance Constrain Labor Supply Adjustments to Health Shocks? New Evidence on Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
Bradley, Cathy J. - 2012
Employment-contingent health insurance creates incentives for ill workers to remain employed at a sufficient level (usually full-time) to maintain access to health insurance coverage. We study employed married women, newly diagnosed with breast cancer, comparing labor supply responses to breast...
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Cohort Patterns in Canadian Earnings : Assessing the Role of Skill Premia in Inequality Trends
Beaudry, Paul - 1997
This paper documents the pattern of change in age-earnings profiles across cohorts and evaluates its implications. Using synthetic cohorts from the Survey of Consumer Finances over the period 1971 to 1993, we show that the age-earning profiles of Canadian men have been deteriorating for more...
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