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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.
Smith, James P.; van soest, arthur; Kapteyn, Arie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037680
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Labor Market Status and Transitions during the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences
Smith, James P.; van soest, arthur; Kapteyn, Arie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Many western industrialized countries face strong budgetary pressures due to the aging of the baby boom generations and the general trends toward earlier ages of retirement. We use the American PSID and the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to explain differences in prevalence and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710280
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Mind the Gap! Consumer Perceptions and Choices of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans
Winter, Joachim; Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
companies and HMOs. In this paper, we study the role of current prescription drug use and health risks, related expectations …' choices respond to the incentives provided by their own health status and the market environment as predicted by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720044
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How Unobservable Productivity Biases the Value of a Statistical Life
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W Kip; Woock, Christopher; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
A prominent theoretical controversy in the compensating differentials literature concerns unobservable individual productivity. Competing models yield opposite predictions depending on whether the unobservable productivity is safety-related skill or productivity generally. Using five panel waves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829478
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Do Workplace Smoking Bans Reduce Smoking?
evans, william n.; Farrelly, Matthew C.; Montgomery, Edward - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
tobacco smoke (ETS). In response, smoking has been banned on many jobs. Using data from the 1991 and 1993 National Health … of the ban is greatest for those with longer work weeks. Although workers with better health habits are more likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829527
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The Effects of Special Saving Programs on Saving and Wealth
Poterba, James; Wise, David; Venti, Steven F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995
Individual saving through targeted retirement saving accountsþIRAs and 401(k)sþgrew rapidly in the United States during the 1980s. The microeconomic evidence presented in this paper suggests that most of the contributions to these programs represent new saving that would not otherwise have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830027
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The Effect of State Workers' Compensation Program Changes on the Use of Federal Social Security Disability Insurance
Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma; McInerney, Melissa P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
associated with ill health. In 2007, Workers Compensation (WC) insurance provided $55.4 billion in medical care and cash benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622343
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Weekends and Subjective Well-Being
Helliwell, John F.; Wang, Shun - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper exploits the richness and large sample size of the Gallup/Healthways US daily poll to illustrate significant differences in the dynamics of two key measures of subjective well-being: emotions and life evaluations. We find that there is no day-of-week effect for life evaluations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151261
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How Does China's New Labor Contract Law Affect Floating Workers?
Freeman, Richard B.; Li, Xiaoying - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
China's new Labor Contract Law took effect on January 2008 and required firms to give migrant workers written contracts, strengthened labor protections for workers and contained penalties for firms that did not follow the labor code. This paper uses survey data of migrant workers in the Pearl...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951329
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Productivity, Safety, and Regulation in Coal Mining: Evidence from Disasters and Fatalities
Gowrisankaran, Gautam; He, Charles; Lutz, Eric A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Coal mining is a dangerous occupation where safety is an important output. Fatalities and disasters may change future accident costs at or near a mine. We use this variation to understand the tradeoffs between mineral output and safety. We find that government inspections and penalties increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272303