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During a pandemic, an individual's choices can determine outcomes not only for the individual but also for the entire community. Beliefs, constraints and preferences may shape behavior. This paper documents demographic differences in behaviors, beliefs, constraints and risk preferences across...
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We estimate the role of firms in worker health care utilization. Using linked administrative data on Austrian workers … utilization in a setting with non-employer provided universal health care. We find that firms are responsible for nearly 30 … percent of the variation in across-worker health care expenditures. Effects are not driven by changes in geography or industry …
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differences is that Southern European workers are less likely to find employment following displacement. Loss of employer …
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large reforms of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels in Austria. We document that wages are insensitive to UI benefit …. The value of nonemployment is therefore a key determinant of wages. We measure the wage effect of changes in the value of … sensitivities larger than $0.03. The insensitivity holds even among workers with low wages and high predicted unemployment duration …
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This paper assesses the impact of the post WWII baby boom on relative wages, when this baby boom cohort becomes the …/sex groupings. Using these estimates, we simulate relative wages in the year 2020 assuming the age/sex composition of the workforce … behaves according to projections. The results are used to examine the baby boom's potential impact on wages of older, prime …
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We develop a new approach to measuring the correlation between the types of matched workers and firms. Our approach accurately measures the correlation in data sets with many workers and firms, but a small number of independent observations for each. Using administrative data from Austria, we...
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: generating a sufficient number of jobs at reasonable wages to absorb their rapidly growing populations into productive employment … of the principal effects of population growth on labor supply and employment in the developing economies of the world. On … population growth, labor supply, employment shifts, and growth of output per worker are presented and discussed.The key result of …
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states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … investigated using continuous employment histories for a sample of low-income families. Simulations using the estimated transition … employment of married women …
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wages; hours of work; the development of the factory system; the growth of unions; and government regulation of labor …
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education, health, and participation rates between population subgroups can have on increasing the U.S. labor force. Our … population growth. The downstream effects of removing disparities in population health and educational attainment on labor force …
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