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access to paid sick leave. Low-income employees, service sector employees, and those in poor health have the lowest coverage …
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This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior. Then we derive testable conditions for reduced...
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The health risks of the current COVID-19 pandemic, together with the drastic mitigation measures taken in many affected … nations, pose an obvious threat to public mental health. The social science literature has already established a clear link … between mental health and sociodemographic as well as economic factors, and a growing number of studies investigate the role …
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Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...
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find a decrease by 0.5 admissions (-6.5%) due to asthma per day, per 1 million population. The health prevention effects …
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Many U.S. high schools start classes before 8:00 A.M., yet research on circadian rhythms suggests that students' biological clocks shift to later in the day as they enter adolescence. Some school districts have moved to later start times for high schools based on the prospect that this would...
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evidence that the increase in sick leave improved employee health, a finding that supports a shirking explanation. Finally, we …
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This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...
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This paper provides new evidence on job search intensity of the unemployed in the U.S., modeling job search intensity as time allocated to job search activities. The main findings are: 1) the average unemployed worker in the U.S. devotes about 41 minutes to job search on weekdays, which is...
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We use detailed time-diary information on high school students' daily activities from the 2003-2008 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) to investigate the effects of employment on the time a student spends on homework and other major activities. Time-diary data are more detailed and accurate than...
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