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Paid family leave allows workers to take time off from work to care for a family member with a serious health condition, with reduced financial risk and increased job continuity. In 2004, California was the first state in the nation to implement a paid family leave program allowing workers to...
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Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...
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this we use merged population-wide registers on health and economic and demographic variables, including the national … possible selective fertility based on labor market conditions. We find that downturns are beneficial; for example, a one …
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Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
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Most of the literature that exploits business cycle variation at birth to study long-run effects of economic conditions on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely absent and they grew up in societies with relatively...
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, we use individual information coming from large (one-fourth) extracts of the French population censuses conducted by …
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on labor market outcomes and hospitalization, and the first to use register data covering the full Dutch population to …
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We examine a new general class of hazard rate models for survival data, containing a parametric and a nonparametric component. Both can be a mix of a time effect and (possibly time-dependent) marker or covariate effects. A number of well-known models are special cases. In a counting process...
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. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …
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sample of families and provided parents with free books, information on the benefits of SBR and tips for effective reading …
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