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Health shocks and spousal labor supply : an international perspective
Jolly, Nicholas A.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022
This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health shocks on own labor supply decisions. Results from the analysis suggest minimal changes to the probability of work and the intensity of work for both husbands and wives of...
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The lock-in effect of marriage : work incentives after saying, "Yes, I do."
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2022
of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the … marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …
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Maternity leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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Labour supply and informal care responses to health shocks within couples : evidence from the UKHLS
Macchioni Giaquinto, Annarita; Jones, Andrew M.; Rice, Nigel - 2021
Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household self-insurance through a partner's response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical evidence on the existence of a healthrelated 'added worker...
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Does performance pay increase the risk of marital instability?
Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2023
This paper uses German survey data on married couples to examine the association of performance pay at work and subsequent separation or divorce. Despite extensive controls, performance pay remains associated with an increased probability of separation or divorce. Yet, the results are entirely...
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Perturbed nuptiality, delayed fertility : childbirth effects of Covid19
Mughal, Mazhar; Javed, Muhammad Rashid - 2021
An aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic that merits attention is its effects on marriage and childbirth. Although the direct … lockdown, such as that imposed in Pakistan from March 14 to May 8 2020, and the closure of marriage halls that lasted till … Pakistan where birth rates remain high, marriage is nearly universal, and almost all child- bearing takes place within marriage …
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A nudge to quit? The effect of a change in pension information on annuitization, labor supply and retirement choices among older workers
Hagen, Johannes; Hallberg, Daniel; Sjögren Lindquist, … - 2018
Nudge is about affecting behavior in a certain way through small changes to the choice architecture. However, a nudge may also affect behaviors that the architect did not intend. We show that such spillover effects exist in a highly policy relevant context where the use of nudge is widespread;...
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A nudge to quit? : the effect of a change in pension information on annuitization, labour supply, and retirement choices among older workers
Hagen, Johannes; Hallberg, Daniel; Sjögren Lindquist, … - 2021
We study the effects of two exogenous modificationsin the Swedish pension system application formnudgingindividuals towards a fixed-term payout.Meanwhile, the set of available options and the default option-life annuity -were unchanged during the period under study. We examine the effects on...
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The power of public insurance with limited benefits : evidence from China's new cooperative medical scheme
Lin, Lin; Zai, Xianhua - 2022
Low-income people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have limited access to healthcare when they are sick. To address this issue, the governments of LMICs have initiated health insurance programs that target these poor populations. However, the health benefits these programs provide are...
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Identifying the effects of health insurance coverage on health care use when coverage is misreported and endogenous
Ha Trong Nguyen; Le, Huong Thu; Blyth, Christopher; … - 2024
The examination of the causal impact of health insurance coverage on healthcare utilisation is a critical endeavour in both academic research and policy formulation. However, this endeavour faces challenges, notably the endogenous selection into coverage and prevalent misreporting of coverage...
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