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Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van soest, arthur - RAND - 2009

The authors analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. They find global life satisfaction of happiness is well-described by four domains: job or daily...

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Forest Fires, Air Pollution and Mortality in Southeast Asia.

Sastry, Narayan - RAND - 2000

In this paper, the author assesses the population health effects in Malaysia of air pollution generated by a widespread series of fires that occurred mainly in Indonesia between April and November of 1997. The author describes how the forest fires occurred and why the associated air pollution...

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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van soest, arthur - RAND - 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 of such a measure is the possibility that different...

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Self-reported Work Disability in the US and The Netherlands

Smith, James P.; van soest, arthur; Kapteyn, Arie - RAND - 2004

Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US and The Netherlands. The raw data show that Dutch respondents much … of both models suggest that about half of the difference between the self-reported rates of work disability in the US and …

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International Comparisons of Work Disability

Smith, James P.; van soest, arthur; Banks, James; … - RAND - 2004

Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different wordings of the questions … lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions are asked, crosscountry differences remain … response scales. Results suggest that more than half of the difference between the rates of self-reported work disability in …

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Work Disability is a Pain in the *****, Especially in England, The Netherlands, and the United States

Smith, James P.; van soest, arthur; Banks, James; … - RAND - 2005

This paper investigates the role of pain in determining self-reported work disability in the U.S., the U.K. and The … Netherlands. Even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences in reported work disability remain substantial. In …

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Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain

Smith, James P.; van soest, arthur; Kapteyn, Arie - RAND - 2006

This paper investigates the role of pain in affecting self-reported work disability and employment of elderly workers … in the US. The authors investigate pain and its relationship to work disability and work in a dynamic panel data model … understanding the dynamics of self-reported work disability. By affecting work disability pain also has important implications for …

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Heterogeneity in Income Tax Incidence: Are the Wages of Dangerous Jobs More Responsive to Tax Changes than the Wages of Safe Jobs?

Powell, David - RAND - 2010

Income taxes distort the relationship between wages and non-taxable amenities. When the marginal tax rate increases, amenities become more valuable as the compensating differential for low-amenity jobs is taxed away. While there is evidence that the provision of amenities responds to taxes, the...

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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; … - RAND - 2007

Household Panel (ECHP) to explain differences in prevalence and dynamics of self-reported work disability and labor force status …-reported work disability. When they apply the U.S. parameters to the equations for the thirteen European countries we consider, the … result is generally that work disability is lower and employment is higher. Furthermore, measures of employment protection …

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