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A Continuous Theory of Income Insurance
Lindbeck, Assar - 2010
In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on … continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new light on the role and functioning of income insurance and makes it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141884
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Social Interaction and Sickness Absence
Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2021
Does the average level of sickness absence in a neighborhood affect individual sickness absence through social interaction on the neighborhood level? To answer this question, we consider evidence of local benefit-dependency cultures. Well-known methodological problems in this type of analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316579
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Job Security and Work Absence : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2021
We analyze the consequences for sickness absence of a selective softening of job security legislation for small firms in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates, aggregate absence in these firms fell by 0.2-0.3 days per year. This aggregate net figure hides important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317635
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Taxing Sin Goods and Subsidizing Health Care
Cremer, Helmuth - 2008
. The sin good brings pleasure but has a detrimental effect on second period health and individuals tend to underestimate … this effect. In the second period, individuals can devote part of their saving to improve their health status and thus … period health care decision: either individuals acknowledge that they have made a mistake in the first period out of myopia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772005
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The Willingness to Pay for Job Amenities : Evidence from Mothers' Return to Work
Felfe, Andrea Christina - 2009
This study is the first to estimate mothers' marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can decide whether and when to return to their guaranteed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157193
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An Up-to-Date Joint Labor Supply and Child Care Choice Model
Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2017
Norwegian parents of preschool children make their care choices from a completely different choice set compared to what their predecessor did, say, two decades ago. Now, there is essentially only one type of nonparental care, center-based care, and at the parental side fathers take a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947356
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The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Relative Wages and Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2017
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951557
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Technological Progress, the Supply of Hours Worked, and the Consumption-Leisure Complementarity
Irmen, Andreas - 2018
At least since 1870 hours worked per worker declined and real wages increased in many of today's industrialized countries. The dual nature of technological progress in conjunction with a consumption-leisure complementarity explains these stylized facts. Technological progress drives real wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925257
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Habit Formation and Labor Supply
Cremer, Helmuth - 2008
This paper shows that the combination of habit formation - present consumption creating additional consumption needs in the future - and myopia may explain why some retirees are forced to 'unretire', i.e., unexpectedly return to work. It also shows that when myopia about habit formation leads to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771200
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Is Prescott Right? Welfare State Policies and the Incentives to Work, Learn and Retire
Jacobs, Bas - 2008
This paper bolsters Prescott's (2004) claim that high taxes are responsible for lacklustre labor market performance in continental European countries. We develop a lifecycle model with endogenous skill formation, endogenous labor supply, and endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772137