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Price and saliency in health care: when can targeted nudges change behaviors?

Walker, Brigham - 2020

This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health services. A large employer e-mailed individually-targeted health education encouraging high-value care to high-risk employees. Weeks before the program launched, a company...

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Labor market institutions and long-term effects of youth unemployment

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Murao, Tetsushi - 2014

Graduating from a school during a time of adverse economic conditions has a persistent, harmful effect on workers' subsequent employment opportunities. An analysis of panel data from OECD countries during the 1960-2010 periods reveals that a worker who experiences a one-percentage-point higher...

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Long memory in Turkish unemployment rates

Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Tansel, Aysıt - 2017

In this paper we have examined the unemployment rate series in Turkey by using long memory models and in particular employing fractionally integrated techniques. Our results suggest that unemployment in Turkey is highly persistent, with orders of integration equal to or higher than 1 in most...

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Long-term effects of shocks on new opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship

Congregado, Emilio; Fossen, Frank M.; Rubino, Nicola; … - 2024

firm formation exhibit hysteresis, such that shocks, including those induced by temporary policy interventions, have … deterministic breaks. We also present results for the different Spanish regions and industrial sectors. We find that hysteresis is …

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Minimum wage competition between local governments in China

Li, Yanan; Kanbur, Ravi; Lin, Carl - 2018

The theory of fiscal and regulatory competition between jurisdictions is more advanced than its empirical testing. This …

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The nature of occupational unemployment rates in the United States : hysteresis or structural?

Candelon, Bertrand (contributor); Dupuy, Arnaud (contributor) - 2008

for the debate between the structural or hysteresis hypotheses. We develop a procedure that permits us to test for the … the 0/1 paradigm about the order of integration, usually implemented for testing the hypothesis of hysteresis in … occupational unemployment. In almost all occupations, we find support for both the structuralist and the hysteresis hypotheses, but …

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Do men and women-economists choose the same research fields? : Evidence from top-50 departments

Dolado, Juan J. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper describes the gender distribution of research fields chosen by the faculty members in the top fifty Economics departments, according to the rankings available on the Econphd.net website. We document that women are unevenly distributed across fields and test some behavioral...

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Self-employment dynamics, state dependence and cross-mobility patterns

Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Uhlendorff, Arne (contributor) - 2008

This paper analyzes the mobility between self-employment, wage employment and non-employment. Using data for men in West Germany, we find strong true state dependence in all three states. Moreover, compared to wage employment, non-employment increases the probability of self-employment...

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Approaches to estimating the health state dependence of the utility function

Finkelstein, Amy (contributor); … - 2009

If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of...

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Low pay persistence in European countries

Clark, Kenneth; Kanellopoulos, Nikolaos C. - 2009

Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically significant state dependence...

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