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Do you have to win it to fix it? : a longitudinal study of lottery winners and their health care demand
Cheng, Terence Chai; Costa-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2015
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498373
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Structurally dependent competing risks
Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2001
In this paper, we specify and estimate a structurally dependent competing risks model for the transitions out of unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400768
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Overweight and obesity and the demand for primary physician care
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Greve, Jane - 2009
The standard economic model for the demand for health care predicts that unhealthy behaviour such as being overweight … or obese should increase the demand for medical care, particularly as clinical studies link obesity to a number of … serious diseases. In this paper, we investigate whether overweight or obese individuals demand more medical care than normal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003830298
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From micro data to causality : forty years of empirical labor economics
Klaauw, Bas van der - 2014
This overview describes the development of methods for empirical research in the field of labor economics during the past four decades. This period is characterized by the use of micro data to answer policy relevant research question. Prominent in the literature is the search for exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259620
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Social insurance and health
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2017
This chapter reviews the existing empirical evidence on how social insurance affects health. Social insurance encompasses programs primarily designed to insure against health risks, such as health insurance, sick leave insurance, accident insurance, long-term care insurance and disability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709766
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The effect of product demand on inequality : evidence from the US and the UK
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising … employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods …, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce a shift in relative skill demand. This channel reduces the need …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976873
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Estimating income responses to tax changes: a dynamic panel data approach
Holmlund, Bertil (contributor);  … - 2007
Recent research on the behavioral effects of income taxes has to a large extent focused on the elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate, i.e., one minus the marginal tax rate. We offer new evidence on this matter by making use of a large panel of Swedish tax payers over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561648
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Incentives of retirement transition for elderly workers : an analysis of actual and simulated replacement rates in Ireland
Li, Jinjing; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2011
Retirement behaviours and elderly poverty issues have been the subject of much attention and discussion in recent years as most countries are facing a rapidly ageing society. Ireland enjoys a relatively young population compared with other European countries, but is also struggling with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310744
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Intergenerational income persistency in urban China
Deng, Quheng; Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi - 2012
Intergenerational income elasticities are estimated using samples for urban China (covering many cities) for the years 1995 and 2002 and compared with results from other studies. We find that the income relation between the pairs: sons and fathers, sons and mothers and daughters and mothers, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629640
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Intergenerational earnings mobility in Japan among sons and daughters : levels and trends
Lefranc, Arnaud; Ojima, Fumiaki; Yoshida, Takashi - 2012
This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach using representative data from the Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys,...
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