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highest rates of many health conditions for which marijuana may be an effective treatment. We use the Health and Retirement …
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-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous immigration-induced labor supply shock on local wages and employment of natives …. On average, the supply shock leads to a moderate decline in local native wages and a sharp decline in local native … employment. These average effects mask considerable heterogeneity across groups: while younger natives experience larger wage …
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What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and the family attenuate these various factors in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this...
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This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …
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identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most … attention to the role of health status. We estimate probit models of retirement using data from SHARE. The results show that … health and incentives matter in the decision to exit from the labor market. Based on these results, we simulate the effect of …
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In this paper, we quantify the effects of health on time allocation. We estimate that improvements in health status … watching TV, sleeping, and consuming other types of leisure. We find that poor health status results in about 300 additional … also find that, for men, better health induces a substitution of market-produced goods for home-produced goods …
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We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health … payments from husbands to their (non-working) wives, thereby substantially reducing the implied tax on the husband's employment … for employment, we find that working an additional full year at old age decreases longevity. This mortality effect occurs …
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's counter-factual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and …
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psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To identify behavioural differences in labour supply, I focus on a selected … group of full-time employed men of working age and similar health. Men with negative control beliefs, relative to men with … positive beliefs, are 230-290% more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labour market after a health shock. In old age …
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