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The effect of an employer health insurance mandate on health insurance coverage and the demand for labor : evidence from Hawaii
Buchmueller, Thomas C.; DiNardo, John E.; Valletta, … - 2009
mandate that has ever been enforced in the United States, Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care Act, using a standard supply … Hawaii and other states increased, as did real health insurance costs, implying a rising burden of the mandate on Hawaii … voluntary market (primarily those with lower skills). We also find that relative wages fell in Hawaii over time, but the …
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Workplace, human capital and ethnic determinants of sickness absence in Sweden, 1993 -2001
Bengtsson, Tommy (contributor); Scott, Kirk (contributor) - 2008
This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...
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Underpaid or overpaid? : wage analysis for nurses using job and worker attributes
Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor);  … - 2008
The nursing labor market presents an apparent puzzle. Hospitals report chronic shortages, yet standard wage analysis shows that nursing wages have increased over time and greatly exceed those received by other college-educated women. This paper addresses this puzzle. Data from the Current...
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The impacts of labor market policies on job search behavior and post-unemployment job quality
Gaure, Simen (contributor); Røed, Knut (contributor);  … - 2008
We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies - in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) - on the duration and outcome of job search and on the quality of a subsequent job. We find that time invested in job search tends to pay off in the form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771862
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Sweatshop equilibrium
Chau, Nancy H. - 2009
This paper presents a capability-augmented model of on the job search, in which sweatshop conditions stifle the capability of the working poor to search for a job while on the job. The augmented setting unveils a sweatshop equilibrium in an otherwise archetypal Burdett-Mortensen economy, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884095
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Innovative work practices, information technologies and working conditions : evidence for France
Askenazy, Philippe (contributor); Caroli, Eve (contributor) - 2006
"We investigate the impact of new work practices and information and communication technologies (ICT) on working conditions in France. We use a unique French dataset providing information on individual workers for the year 1998. New work practices include the use of quality norms, job rotation,...
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Do legal immigrants and natives compete in the labour market? : evidence from Catalonia
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2010
The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare the working conditions between immigrants and natives in Catalonia. Comparing immigrants' working...
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Mental health and working conditions in European countries
Cottini, Elena; Lucifora, Claudio - 2010
Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively deteriorated with adverse effects on psychological well being and mental health. This paper investigates...
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Implicit contracts, unemployment, and labor market segmentation
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2010
We analyze the impact of imperfect contract enforcement on the emergence of unemployment. In an experimental labor market where trading parties can form long-term employment relationships, we compare a work environment where effort is observable, but not verifiable to a situation where explicit...
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Sorting in the labor market : do gregarious workers flock to interactive jobs?
Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Schkade, David (contributor) - 2007
This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with different attributes based on their preferences for those attributes. We present evidence from four new time-use data sets for the United States and France on whether workers who are...
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