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Does uninsurance affect the health outcomes of the insured? : evidence from heart attack patients in California
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012
hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an economically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533985
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The changing profile of Mexican migrants to the United States : new evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A. (contributor);  … - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520497
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Labor market conditions and post-reform declines in welfare receipt among immigrants
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bean, Frank D. - 2001
lowered immigrant participation, and others have argued that this is true only in California. This paper analyzes the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403338
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The impacts of paid family leave benefits : regression kink evidence from California administrative data
Bana, Sarah; Bedard, Kelly; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2018
administrative data from California together with a regression kink (RK) design to estimate the causal impacts of benefits in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810214
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Effects of recent minimum wage policies in California and nationwide : initial results from a pre-specified analysis plan
Neumark, David; Yen, Maysen - 2020
Many U.S. cities have recently increased their minimum wages, especially in California. We report results from carrying … employment effects, in our analysis of California cities we find a hint of negative employment effects, but the estimates are …. In our panel data analyses of all California or national local minimum wages, there is evidence pointing to declines in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193831
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Preferences for redistribution
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2009
This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. We review the theoretical literature and provide a framework to incorporate various effects previously studied separately in the literature. We then examine empirical evidence for the US, using the General...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824787
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Unemployment benefits or taxes : how should policy makers redistribute income over the business cycle?
Ek, Susanne - 2012
This paper studies optimal unemployment benefit levels and optimal proportional income tax rates over the business cycle. Previous research suggests that policy makers should make unemployment insurance (UI) dependent on the business cycle because the UI system can be used to smooth consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530147
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Comparing inequality aversion across countries when labor supply responses differ
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2013
We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when control- ling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715731
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Migration elasticities, fiscal federalism and the ability of states to redistribute income
Giertz, Seth H.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2012
This paper develops a simulation model in order to examine the effectiveness of state attempts at redistribution under a variety of migration elasticity assumptions. Key outputs from the simulation include the impact of tax-induced migration on state revenues, excess burden, and fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581381
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The Scandinavian fantasy : the sources of intergenerational mobility in Denmark and the U.S.
Landersø, Rasmus; Heckman, James J. - 2016
This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility. There are pronounced nonlinearities in income and educational mobility in both countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493939