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Early retirement : free choice or forced decision
Dorn, David; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2005
Early retirement is usually explained as a supply-side phenomenon. However, early retirement can also be a demand-side phenomenon arising from a firm's profit maximization behavior. This paper analyzes voluntary and involuntary early retirement based on international microdata covering 19...
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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
market care subsidies vs. cash for care. Policies are determined by probabilistic voting, where allocative and distributional … likely to receive subsidies. In early stages of development where most households are traditional, implemented policies … favour them, though to a small extent. Net subsidies to traditional households are highest in some intermediate stage, which …
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The Economic Burden of Burnout
Nekoei, Arash; Sigurdsson, Jósef; Wehr, Dominik - 2024
We study the economic consequences of stress-related occupational illnesses (burnout) using Swedish administrative data. Using a mover design, we find that high-burnout firms and stressful occupations universally raise burnout risk yet disproportionately impact low-stress-tolerance workers....
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Sick Leave Cuts and (Unhealthy) Returns to Work
Marie, Olivier; Vall Castello, Judit - 2022
We investigate the impact on work absence of a massive reduction in paid sick leave benefits. We exploit a policy change that only affected public sector workers in Spain and compare changes in the number and length of spells they take relative to unaffected private sector workers. Our results...
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Willingness to Pay for Workplace Safety
Anelli, Massimo; Koenig, Felix - 2021
This paper develops a revealed-preference approach that uses budget constrain discontinuities to price workplace safety. We track hourly workers who face the decision of how many hours to work at varying levels of Covid-19 risk and leverage state-specific discontinuities in unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799769
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Sick Leave Cuts and (Unhealthy) Returns to Work
Marie, Olivier; Vall Castelló, Judit - 2022
We investigate the impact on work absence of a massive reduction in paid sick leave benefits. We exploit a policy change that only affected public sector workers in Spain and compare changes in the number and length of spells they take relative to unaffected private sector workers. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306850
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Willingness to Pay for Workplace Safety
Anelli, Massimo; Koenig, Felix - 2021
This paper develops a revealed-preference approach that uses budget constrain discontinuities to price workplace safety. We track hourly workers who face the decision of how many hours to work at varying levels of Covid-19 risk and leverage state-specific discontinuities in unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311704
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What explains the variation in estimates of labour supply elasticities?
Evers, Michiel; de Mooij, Ruud A.; van Vuuren, Daniel J. - 2005
This paper performs a meta-analysis of empirical estimates of uncompensated labour supply elasticities. We find that much of the variation in elasticities can be explained by the variation in gender, participation rates, and country fixed effects. Country differences appear to be small though....
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Tax policy and employment: How does the Swedish system fare?
Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - 2011
This paper reviews the literature on optimal taxation of labour income and the empirical work on labour supply and the elasticity of taxable income in Sweden. It also presents an overview of Swedish taxation of labour income, offers calculations on the development in effective marginal tax rates...
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The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply
Gagnon, Nickolas - 2020
Labor market opportunities and wages may be unfair for various reasons, and how workers respond to different types of unfairness can have major economic consequences. Using an online labor platform, where workers engage in an individual task for a piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal...
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