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Workers' compensation insurance provides cash payments and medical benefits to workers who incur a work-related injury …-paid health insurance plans. This paper empirically examines the incidence of the workers' compensation program to infer the … likely consequences of mandated health insurance proposals. In certain industries, such as trucking and carpentry, workers …
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This paper presents estimates of the average cost of the workers' compensation insurance program for a homogeneous … results also indicate that the presence of a state insurance fund is associated with higher average costs to employers, all …
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eventually insurance companies offered insurance against lost earnings from sickness, injury, death, and old age. Germany led the … in aid to the elderly and health care expenses, often in the form of contributory social insurance financed by payroll …
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This paper examines how labor income volatility and social security benefits can influence lifecycle household portfolios. We examine how much the individual optimally saves and where, taking into account liquid financial wealth and annuities, and stocks as well as bonds. Higher labor income...
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We estimate the impact of employer-provided health insurance (EPHI) on the job mobility of males over time using a … about possible distortions in labor mobility stemming from an employment-based health insurance system: a few authors find … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth which describes the health insurance an individual holds, as well as whether …
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Designing benefits for the growing platform workforce in the U.S. poses significant challenges. While platform workers need protection against unforeseen shocks, work that is often part time and spread across multiple platforms makes the traditional benefits model untenable. This paper reports...
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This paper discusses the pure static price effects which are engendered by tax preferences for nonwage compensation. Section II demonstrates that, because of these price effects, optimal consumption bundles will contain larger quantities of the goods included in nonwage compensation, and smaller...
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life, accident and health insurance. The magnitude of the effect is sufficiently large as to suggest that estimates which …
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We study regulations on the health insurance system for working-age U.S. households, consisting of employer …-sponsored health insurance (ESHI), individual health insurance exchange (HIX), and Medicaid. We develop and estimate an equilibrium … various components of the health insurance system as well as their relationship with the labor market. We estimate the model …
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