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Earnings responses to disability benefit cuts

Garcia Mandico, Silvia; García Gómez, Pilar; Gielen, … - 2018

Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by … estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria … increased by 6.7 points and earnings rose by 18 percent. Recipients were able to increase earnings by e0.64 for each e1 of DI …

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2001

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Uncertainty avoidance and the rate of business ownership across 22 OECD countries, 1976 - 2000

Wennekers, A. R.; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Stel, Adriaan J. van - 2004

This paper deals with the influence of cultural attitudes towards uncertainty on the level of businessownership across countries. First, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as theirrelevance for entrepreneurship. Second, cross-sectional regression analysis using data for...

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A theory of education and health

Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015

later in life, and eventually declines, no matter how much one invests in it (a dismal fact of life). Lifetime earnings are …

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Adaptation for mitigation

Ikefuji, Masako; Magnus, Jan R.; Sakamoto, Hiroaki - 2014

This paper develops a dynamic model consisting of two regions (North and South), in which the accumulation of human capital is negatively influenced by the global stock of pollution. By characterizing the equilibrium strategy of each region, we show that the regions' best responses can be...

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Human capital formation : the importance of endogenous longevity

Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2022

We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight an important economic mechanism driving...

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Growth and inequality : a meta-analysis

Dominicis, Laura de; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, … - 2006

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and empirical approaches have produced ambiguous results on sign and size of this relationship. Although there is a considerable part of the literature that considers inequality...

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Effects on health on own and spousal employment and income using acute hospital admissions

García-Gomez, Pilar; Kippersluis, Hans van; O'Donnell, Owen - 2011

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Beyond Okun's law : output growth and labor market flows

Lim, Guay C.; Dixon, Robert J.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2018

This paper studies the relationship between the change in the unemployment rate and output growth using an approach based on labor market flows. The framework shows why the Okun coefficient may be constant/time-varying and/or symmetric/asymmetric and that the outcome lies with the behavior of...

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