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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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Modern infectious diseases: macroeconomic impacts and policy responses
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
dependence of economic consequences on (i) disease characteristics; (ii) inequalities among individuals in terms of …
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After lead : effects of early interventions for children exposed to lead
Billings, Stephen B.; Schnepel, Kevin T. - 2017
Lead pollution is consistently linked to cognitive and behavioral impairments, yet little is known about the benefits of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates the long-term impacts of early-life interventions (e.g. lead remediation, nutritional...
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Maternal genetic risk for depression and child human capital
Menta, Giorgia; Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; … - 2022
We here address the causal relationship between the maternal genetic risk for depression and child human capital using UK birth-cohort data. We find that an increase of one standard deviation (SD) in the maternal polygenic risk score for depression reduces their children's cognitive and...
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The effects of mental health interventions on labor market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries
Lund, Crick; Orkin, Kate; Witte, Marc; Walker, John; … - 2024
Mental health conditions are prevalent but rarely treated in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Little is known about how these conditions affect economic participation. This paper shows that treating mental health conditions substantially improves recipients' capacity to work in these...
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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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