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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...
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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 …
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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 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...
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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...
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The Impact of Provider Choice on Workers' Compensation Costs and Outcomes
Neumark, David; Barth, Peter S.; Victor, Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
We study how provider choice in workers' compensation cases affects costs and outcomes. When employees choose the provider, costs are higher and return-to-work outcomes are worse, while physical recovery is the same although satisfaction with medical care is higher. The higher costs and worse...
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Labor Market Effects of Spinal Cord Injuries in the Dawn of the Computer Age
Krueger, Alan B.; Kruse, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995
What effect does a severe disability have on individuals' employment and earnings? Has the computer revolution lessened the adverse labor market consequences of severe disabilities? This paper investigates the labor market effects of severe, traumatic disabilities resulting from spinal cord...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718469
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The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents
Fryer, Roland; Levitt, Steven; Kahn, Lisa; Spenkuch, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Over the past 40 years the fraction of mixed race black-white births has increased nearly nine-fold. There is little empirical evidence on how these children fare relative to their single-race counterparts. This paper describes basic facts about the plight of mixed race individuals during their...
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Changing Inequality in Markets for Workplace Amenities
Hamermesh, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998
We know that earnings inequality has increased sharply in the United States since the late 1970s, but there has been no evidence on the changing inequality of nonmonetary aspects of work nor on how any such changes are related to changes in earnings. I begin by studying patterns of interindustry...
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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...
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