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social welfare measure to evaluate four hypothetical earnings tax reforms for Belgian singles. The degree of compensation for …
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In the past decade, crowdworking on online labor market platforms has become the main source of income for a growing … number of people worldwide. This development has led to increasing political and scientific interest in the wages that people … crowdworking by conducting a meta-analysis of the prevalent hourly wages. After a systematic and rigorous literature search, we …
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Can the expansion of Medicaid, a means-tested health and long-term care insurance, be slowed down by incentivising the …-in-differences (DD) design we study the effect of the rollout of the LTCIP program between 2005 and 2016 on both LTCI uptake and Medicaid … eligibility, and we estimate the effect on Medicaid savings. Drawing on a difference-in-differences (DD) design, we find that …
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Retirement Study, HRS) for 2010 to 2018 for low-income individuals aged 64 or below. We find that ACA’s Medicaid expansion …, reducing their experience of depression. This study exploits evidence from the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion …-in-Differences (DID) design we investigate the policy impact of ACA Medicaid expansion using longitudinal evidence (from the Health and …
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We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their place of residence to analyze the effects of rush hours on the spatial allocation of employment and population, average labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing...
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Working time account is an organization tool that allows firms to smooth their demand for hours employed. Descriptive literature suggests that working time accounts are likely to reduce layoffs and inhibit increases in unemployment during recessions. In a model of optimal labour demand I show...
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Over the last decades, hours worked per capita have declined substantially in many OECD economies. Using a neoclassical growth model with endogenous work-leisure choice, we assess the role of trend growth slowdown in accounting for the decline in hours worked. In the model, a permanent reduction...
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intergenerational welfare, the evolution of GDP, and the functional income distribution. A stabilization policy can shift the economy …
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argues that in order to understand earnings dispersion we need to consider not only the dispersion of hourly wages but also … hours and wages, assessing their contribution to recent trends in earnings inequality. We find that, other than in the US …The vast literature on earnings inequality has so far largely ignored the role played by hours of work. This paper …
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We examine the profitability of cross-ownership in an oligopolistic industry where firms compete as Cournot rivals. We consider a symmetric cross-ownership structure in which a subset of k firms engage in cross-shareholding and each firm has an equal silent financial interest in the other firms,...
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