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Despite the fact that there are over a million new cancer cases detected in the U.S. every year, none of retirement …-health literature focuses specifically on the effect that cancer has on retirement. Social Security may offer a pathway to retirement … for eligible workers but the separate effects of both cancer, and Social Security, on retirement, need to be accounted for …
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Estimating the unbiased effect of health shocks on employment is an important topic in both health and labour economics. This is particularly relevant to cancer, where improvements in screening and treatments have led to increases in survival for nearly all types of cancer. In order to address...
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The labor supply effects of becoming a grandmother are not well established in the empirical literature. We estimate the effect of becoming a grandmother on the labor supply decision of older workers. Under the assumption that grandmothers cannot predict the exact date of conception of their...
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In this paper we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displace- ment on fertility in a sample of white … collar women in Austria. Using an instru- mental variables approach we show that unemployment incidence as such has no … so irrespective of the incidence or the duration of the associated unemployment spell. …
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reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …
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Using a combination of UKHLS and LFS data and a discrete time model, we test the hypothesis that unstable jobs with variable hours or pay enhance the job finding chances of the unemployed in the UK. We nd no evidence that the share of unstable jobs in the unemployed person's local labour market...
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