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We study the effect of state medical marijuana laws on labor supply among older adults; the demographic group with the highest rates of many health conditions for which marijuana may be an effective treatment. We use the Health and Retirement Study to study this question and estimate...
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In this paper we study labour force participation behaviour of individuals aged 50-64 in 11 European countries. The data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that health is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different...
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We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on … work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes …
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increasing the employment rate of older workers. The main policies of the ISP consist in a pension bonus, reductions in employers … of the career. We aim at evaluating the overall effectiveness of the ISP in rising the employment rate of older workers …. To that purpose, we compare the actual evolution of the employment rate after the implementation of the policies to its …
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We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and … part-time work. Transitions from full-time to involuntary part-time employment dominate this dynamics, spiking up at …
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and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce …
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We analyze the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use of German … employment effects for the least routine-task intensive occupations and for young workers, the latter being better at adapting to … change. An event-study analysis for robot adoption confirms both predictions. We do not find decreasing employment for any …
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have examined how employment rates have subsequently changed. We present estimates of how the employment rates of older … employment rates of those with good health, but their employment rates fell per se. We find only for Sweden (and possibly England …) signs that the health employment gap shrank. We then examine possible explanations for the development in the USA: we find …
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