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Clark, Andrew E; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We construct indicators of the perception of job security for various types of jobs in 12 European countries using individual data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). We then consider the relation between reported job security and OECD summary measures of Employment Protection...

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Gender Segregation in Employment Contracts

Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflects women’s preferences and their...

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Screening Disability Insurance Applications

de Jong, Philip; Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed to screen applications more intense. The...

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The Public Health Costs of Job Loss

Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...

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Cyclical Fluctuations in Workplace Accidents

Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper presents a theory and an empirical investigation on cyclical fluctuations in workplace accidents. The theory is based on the idea that reporting an accident dents the reputation of a worker and raises the probability that he is fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing...

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Do Non-standard Working Hours Cause Negative Health Effects? Some Evidence from Panel Data

Ulker, Aydogan - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

What does the around-the-clock economic activity mean for workers’ health? Despite the fact that non-standard work accounts for an increasing share of the job opportunities, relatively little is known about the potential consequences for health and the existing evidence is ambiguous. In this...

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Immigrant Labour and Workplace Safety

Bauer, Thomas; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyses the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869 and the...

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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis," whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...

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Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...

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Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights

Galasso, Alberto; Schankerman, Mark; Serrano, Carlos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

transactions should increase litigation risk. We identify a new source of gains from trade, comparative advantage in patent … enforcement, and show that transactions driven by this motive should reduce litigation. Using data on trade and litigation of … effect of trade on litigation. We find that taxes strongly affect patent transactions, and that reallocation of patent rights …

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