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Beyond job lock : impacts of public health insurance on occupational and industrial mobility

Farooq, Ammar; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2016

We examine whether greater Medicaid generosity encourages mobility towards riskier but better jobs in higher paid … occupations and industries. We use Current Population Survey Data and exploit variation in Medicaid thresholds across states and … Medicaid income thresholds increases occupational and industrial mobility by 7.6% and 7.8%. We also find that higher income …

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Job lock : evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Fairlie, Robert W.; Kapur, Kanika; Gates, Susan M. - 2013

Employer-provided health insurance may restrict job mobility, resulting in "job lock." Previous research on job lock finds mixed results using several methodologies. We take a new approach to examine job-lock by exploiting the discontinuity created at age 65 through the qualification for...

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The response of firms to maternity leave and sickness absence

Schmutte, Ian M.; Skira, Meghan M. - 2022

We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences arising from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over 1.5 million spells of leave in Brazil, we identify the short-run effects of a leave spell starting on firms' employment, hiring,...

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Employment turnover and unemployment insurance

Hassler, John; Rodríguez Mora, José Vicente - 1997

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Not so lucky any more : CEO compensation in financially distressed firms

Kang, Qiang (contributor); Mitnik, Oscar A. (contributor) - 2008

There is a debate on whether executive pay reflects rent extraction due to "managerial power" or is the result of arms-length bargaining in a principal-agent framework. In this paper we offer a test of the managerial power hypothesis by empirically examining the CEO compensation of U.S. public...

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The quit propensity of married men

Shaw, Kathryn - In: Journal of labor economics 5 (1987) 4, pp. 533-560

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Occupational mobility and wage inequality

Kambourov, Gueorgui (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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O brother, where art thou? : The effects of having a sibling on geographic mobility and labor market outcomes

Rainer, Helmut (contributor); Siedler, Thomas (contributor) - 2005

In most industrialized countries, more people than ever are having to cope with the burden of caring for elderly parents. This paper formulates a model to explain how parental care responsibilities and family structure interact children's mobility characteristics. A key insight we obtain is that...

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Head-content or headcount? : Short-term skilled labour movements as a source of growth

Tani, Massimiliano (contributor) - 2006

This paper contributes a theoretical model to study the effects of short-term movements of skilled labour on a country's economic growth. As traditional migration models emphasise the long-term effects of migration on factor endowments, they typically omit the analysis of gross labour flows....

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Large employers are more cyclically sensitive

Moscarini, Giuseppe; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2009

We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create more of their new jobs late in expansions, both in gross and net terms. The differential growth rate...

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