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Natural resources, demand for skills, and schooling choices

Bütikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector - the Norwegian petroleum industry - on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational margins, by comparing individuals in regions exposed to the new sector...

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Social inclusion and levels of urbanisation : does it matter where you live?

Whelan, Adele; Devlin, Anne; McGuinness, Séamus - 2023

Are individuals living in distinct urban or rural settings more likely to experience barriers to social inclusion? If so, what are the nature of the barriers that they face? Using a unique administrative dataset for Ireland's dominant social inclusion programme, this paper examines the effect of...

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Modeling to inform economy-wide pandemic policy: bringing epidemiologists and economists together

Darden, Michael; Dowdy, David; Gardner, Lauren; … - 2021

Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well-being, policy makers during the Covid-19 pandemic have sought the guidance of epidemiologists and economists. Unfortunately, while both groups of scientists use many of the same basic...

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The inefficiency of employment and the case for workplace democracy

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A. - 2021

While most working people are in employment, there is little realisation that this relationship is inefficient and inequitable due to mis-aligned incentives - employers, as residual claimants, have an incentive to elicit greater than socially optimal effort from workers, thus generating conflict...

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Economic vs. epidemiological approaches to measuring the human capital impacts of infectious disease elimination

Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alexander D.; … - 2022

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...

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Re-employment dynamics of disabled workers

Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2001

We investigate the duration of time until the first work resumption for a cohort of people who receive disability … insurance benefits. One of the peculiarities of the disability insurance program under investigation is that the level of … work experience, and the level of disability. As a result, different people will face different benefit schedules and hence …

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Health status, disability and retirement incentives in Belgium

Jousten, Alain; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio - 2013

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

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Wage subsidies and hiring chances for the disabled : some causal evidence

Baert, Stijn - 2014

We evaluate the effectiveness of wage subsidies as a policy instrument to integrate disabled individuals into the labour market. To identify causal effects, we conduct a large-scale field experiment in Belgium. Our results show that the likelihood of a disabled candidate receiving a positive...

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Dynamics in health and employment : evidence from Indonesia

Mani, Subha; Mitra, Sophie; Sambamoorthi, Usha - 2016

This paper examines the consequences of disability, identifying for the first time, the separate impacts of onsets and … recoveries from disability on both employment status and hours worked using panel data from Indonesia. We find that changes in … towards a need for social protection policies with a focus on health, disability, and employment in Indonesia. …

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Can immigrants insure against shocks as well as the native-born?

Islam, Asadul; Stillman, Steven; Worswick, Christopher - 2016

The impact that an unforeseen event has on household welfare depends on the extent to which household members can take actions to mitigate the direct impact of the shock. In this paper, we use nine years of longitudinal data from the Household Income Labour Dynamics of Australia (HILDA) survey...

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