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insure against it, and we here consider marriage as one potential source of this insurance. The 1999 rise in the French …, and especially when the partner had greater job security, consistent with marriage providing insurance against labour …
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insurance and pensions, across African Americans and the whites in the United States. Using data from the Current Population … employer provided health insurance and pension than whites in the last decade. We also find that the inclusion of racial …
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"This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not only did the survey collect information on establishment level policies, it also asked questions about a specific worker's opportunity for phased retirement. The paper uses these...
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The focus on employer-provided health insurance in the United States may restrict business creation. We address the … insurance and potential demand for health care. We find evidence of a larger negative effect of health insurance demand on … literature to examine the question of whether employer-based health insurance discourages business creation by exploiting the …
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We examine racial and ethnic inequality in offers of employer provided fringe benefits (health insurance, life … insurance and pension). Restricting to full-time workers in the private sector, we find that African Americans are significantly …
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This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick...
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This study shows that the wage premium paid by large firms fell over the past 20 years and that the decline in the size premium has been most pronounced among the least educated work force. Empirical evidence supports several explanations for the decline in the size premium. First, there has...
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Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we assess the role of employment-based health insurance … might view health benefits as desirable and trade-off wages for health insurance. Thus, lower wages for mothers might … reflect their relative preferences for jobs offering health insurance. We estimate an endogenous switching wage equation model …
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Atypical work, or alternative work arrangements in U.S. parlance, has long been criticized for providing poorly-compensated employment. Although one group of atypical workers (contractors) seems to enjoy a wage premium, our cross-section results from the CPS and NLSY for the better-known...
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"We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health … shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the … labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under what conditions employment-contingent health insurance is likely …
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