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Air Pollution, Wildfire Smoke, and Worker Health
Cabral, Marika; Dillender, Marcus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
unique data we construct through linking information on smoke plumes and pollution to comprehensive administrative data on …
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Paid Sick Leave and Childcare
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Unlike most developed countries, the U.S. lacks a federal paid sick leave policy. As a result, many workers must choose between losing earnings and attending to childcare responsibilities. To date, 14 states and the District of Columbia have adopted paid sick leave mandates that provide up to...
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Social Insurance Spillovers : Evidence From Paid Sick Leave Mandates and Workers' Compensation
Dong, Xiuming; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Powell, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Social insurance programs shield individuals from specific risks, but these programs are not necessarily independent of each other. The existence and scope of one program can potentially influence the use of others, especially when the risks covered by the programs are related. This study...
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Fundamentally Reforming the DI System : Evidence from German Notch Cohorts
Fischer, Bjoern; Geyer, Johannes Micha; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
rules require work disability in any job. Using administrative data, we first show that the reform significantly reduced the … household panel data comprised of the entire underlying population. The second part studies interaction effects with the private … ODI market. Using representative data, we do not find much evidence that the notch cohorts purchased individual private …
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How Has COVID-19 Impacted Disability Employment?
Ne'eman, Ari; Maestas, Nicole - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-teleworkable, frontline, nonfrontline). We made use of data from the nationally representative Current Population Survey. Linear probability …
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The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men
Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS overestimates the returns to degrees with high average earnings and underestimates...
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Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot …. Employing longitudinal data from Germany, we exploit within-individual changes in robot exposure and document that a one …
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The Impact of Fear on Police Behavior and Public Safety
Cho, Sungwoo; Gonçalves, Felipe; Weisburst, Emily - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine how changes in the salience of workplace risk affect police behavior and public safety. Specifically, we investigate cases of police officer deaths while on duty. Officers respond to a peer death by decreasing arrest activity for one to two months, consistent with heightened fear....
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Reluctant Entrepreneurs : Evidence from China's SOE Reform
Fang, Hanming; Li, Ming; Wu, Zenan; Zhang, Yapei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
firm registration and performance data, we document that the massive SOE downsizing in the late 1990s significantly …
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Firm Accommodation After Disability : Labor Market Impacts and Implications for Social Insurance
Aizawa, Naoki; Mommaerts, Corina; Rennane, Stephanie L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
wage subsidies to firms for accommodating injured workers. Exploiting rich administrative data and a policy change to the …
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