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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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We estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply, incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. We find that in the absence of Germany's public long-term insurance scheme, informal elderly care has adverse and persistent...
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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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country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining …
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In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two …
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We investigate the impact of a policy reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all those aged 65 and above, on caregiving behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we estimate that the free formal care reduced the probability of co-residential informal caregiving by...
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Indonesian Family Life Survey to track the employment histories of over 9,000 women across a period of more than 20 years … labour market as a result of marriage and childbearing. The difficulty of maintaining formal sector employment emerges as a … thereafter by 3.6 percentage points. Further, to the extent that women do return to work, formal sector employment is associated …
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Survey of Newborns in the 21st Century in Japan. We use a regression discontinuity design and find that the reduction of CB … effect on employment of mothers who used to work outside the home before giving birth and might prevent some mothers from …
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implications using net household income. In this respect we extend the previous literature which mainly studied employment effects … larger employment effects for women who cannot rely on other income on the household level, e.g. women with a low income …
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The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority …
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