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Non-Cash Benefits and the Distribution of Economic Welfare
Callan, Tim - 2009
associated with the greater use of health and education services. Our results, for Ireland in the year 2000, show that it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765214
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Voluntary Employer-Provided Severance Pay
Parsons, Donald O. - 2017
Employer-provided severance pay in the U.S. emerged among salaried workers during the Great Depression as an alternative to modest advance notice and expanded in the late 1950s and 1960s, especially among union (hourly) workers. A variety of sources are employed to estimate variations in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945242
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Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration
Budd, John W. - 2014
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed – subsequent player performance and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055232
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Does Voluntary Risk Taking Affect Solidarity? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Strobl, Renate - 2017
In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance arrangements in developing countries, is sensitive to the extent to which individuals can influence their risk exposure. With slum dwellers of Nairobi our design measures subjects'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948691
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Immigrants and Welfare Receipt in Ireland
Barrett, Alan - 2011
Since 2004, Ireland has included in its system of social welfare payments criteria for receipt which limit the extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129905
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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131926
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The Effects of Childhood Health on Adult Health and SES in China
Smith, James P. - 2010
In this paper, we model the consequences of childhood health on adult health and socio-economic status outcomes in China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), the CHARLS Pilot survey respondents are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135829
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Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time : Ireland 1987-2005
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
shows marked differences reflecting the narrow political spectrum in Ireland compared to radical changes in British politics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137249
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The Impact of Ireland's Recession on the Labour Market Outcomes of its Immigrants
Barrett, Alan - 2010
In the mid 2000s Ireland experienced a large inflow of immigrants, partly in response to strong economic growth but … 2004 and 2007, the proportion of non-nationals living in Ireland almost doubled, increasing from 7.7 to 13.1 percent …. Between 2008 and 2009, Ireland experienced one of the most acute downturns in economic activity in the industrialised world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137549
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Surviving the Crisis : Foreign Multinationals vs Domestic Firms in Ireland
Godart, Olivier - 2011
Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121748