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I analyze how general practitioners (GPs) indirectly affect their patients' employment outcomes by deciding on the … only certified because a worker's GP has a high propensity to certify sick leaves - decreases employment probabilities …: Whenever medically justifiable, it may be beneficial to certify shorter sick leaves in order to protect employment status of …
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The principle of effective demand, and the claim of its validity for a monetary production economy in the short and in the long run, is the core of heterodox macroeconomics, as currently found in all the different strands of post-Keynesian economics (Fundamentalists, Kaleckians, Sraffians,...
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immigration laws. Third, we estimate the impact of immigration flows on employment, investment and productivity in the receiving … find that immigration increases employment, with no evidence of crowding-out of natives, and that investment responds …
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Employer-provided health benefits for workers who retire before age 65 has fallen over the last decade. We examine a cohort of male workers from the Health and Retirement Survey to explore the dynamics of retiree health benefits and the relationship between retiree health benefits and retirement...
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inflation. The paper considers a particular employment strategy: a government job creation program, such as an employment …
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The UN Millennium Project identified a set of Quick Impact Initiatives (QIIs) for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). According to the Millennium Project, QIIs are interventions to be implemented in the early years of an MDG scale-up strategy that generate rapid results. With...
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Recently, national newspapers all over the world have suggested that we should reread John Maynard Keynes, and that Hyman P. Minsky provides a valuable framework for understanding the world in which we live. While rereading Keynes and discovering Minsky are noble goals, one should also remember...
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objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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