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Retiree health insurance for public school employees : does it affect retirement?

Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - 2013

Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid … to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced "job …-lock" in the private sector. I use the introduction of retiree health insurance for public school employees in combination with …

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The nature of risk preferences : evidence from insurance choices

Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - 2012

We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard …

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What do labor market institutions do?

Holmlund, Bertil - 2014

offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance …

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Do labor market institutions influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis

Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2014

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with a large body of literature our results suggest that...

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Employment protection and the market for innovations

Bastgen, Andreas; Holzner, Christian - 2015

We study the effects of employment protection taking into account that firms can invest in R&D or buy new technologies in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and innovation market. If employment protection is introduced,...

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Dual labour markets revisited

Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2019

This paper provides an overview of recent research on dual labour markets. Theoretical and empirical contributions on the labour-market effects of dual employment protection legislation are revisited, as well as factors behind its resilience and policies geared towards correcting its negative...

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The impact of restricting fixed-term contracts on labor and skill demand

Grasso, Giuseppe; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2023

This paper examines the impact of increasing the relative cost of fixed-term contracts on labor demand as well as the demand for standard measures of human capital and specific skill requirements. We evaluate a 2018 Italian labor law reform that raised the cost of fixed-term contracts while...

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Labor market externalities of pre-retirement employment protection

Chrostek, Pawel; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - 2024

Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment protection legislation (EPL) targeted towards older workers. Our results show no economically meaningful overall effects of the EPL on employment or earnings of either men or...

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Does weaker employment protection lower the cost of job loss?

Francesconi, Marco; Sonedda, Daniela - 2024

Leveraging a major Italian reform enacted in June 2012 that eroded employment protection to workers on permanent contracts, we use detailed administrative data to estimate how this reduction affected the cost of job loss. We employ a stacked-by-event research design, which compares workers...

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The willingness to pay for job amenities : evidence from mothers' return to work

Felfe, Christina - 2009

This study is the first to estimate mother's 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...

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