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The Effects of Marriage on Couples’ Allocation of Time Between Market and Non-Market Hours
Lahga, AbdelRahmen El; Moreau, Nicolas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women’s specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women’s leisure. These effects are robust across specifications. …
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The Affordable Care Act and the Growth of Involuntary Part-Time Employment
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2015
This study tests whether the employer mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased involuntary part-time (IPT) employment. Using data from the Current Population Survey between 1994 and 2014, we find that IPT employment in 2014 was higher than predicted based on economic conditions and...
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Health Insurance Benefit Mandates and the Firm-Size Distribution
Bailey, James; Webber, Douglas A. - 2015
By 2010, the average US state had passed 37 health insurance benefit mandates (laws requiring health insurance plans to cover certain additional services). Previous work has shown that these mandates likely increase health insurance premiums, which in turn could make it more costly for firms to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345351
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The effect of an employer health insurance mandate on health insurance coverage and the demand for labor: evidence from Hawaii
Buchmueller, Thomas C.; DiNardo, John; Valletta, Robert G. - 2009
Over the past few decades, policy makers have considered employer mandates as a strategy for stemming the tide of declining health insurance coverage. In this paper we examine the long term effects of the only employer health insurance mandate that has ever been enforced in the United States,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269095
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The Effect of an Employer Health Insurance Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage and the Demand for Labor: Evidence from Hawaii
Buchmueller, Thomas C.; DiNardo, John; Valletta, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Over the past few decades, policy makers have considered employer mandates as a strategy for stemming the tide of declining health insurance coverage. In this paper we examine the long term effects of the only employer health insurance mandate that has ever been enforced in the United States,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012886
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How Do Low-Income Enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces Respond to Cost-Sharing?
Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2019
The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the value of CSRs that are solely...
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Unemployment, Labour Force Composition and Sickness Absence: A Panel Data Study
Askildsen, Jan Erik; Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2002
Sickness absence tends to be negatively correlated with unemployment. This may suggest disciplining effects of unemployment but may also reflect changes in the composition of the labour force. A panel of Norwegian register data for the years 1990-1995 is used to analyse sickness absences lasting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276030
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Unemployment, Labour Force Composition and Sickness Absence: A Panel Data Study
Askildsen, Jan Erik; Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Sickness absence tends to be negatively correlated with unemployment. This may suggest disciplining effects of unemployment but may also reflect changes in the composition of the labour force. A panel of Norwegian register data for the years 1990-1995 is used to analyse sickness absences lasting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566679
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The Effects of Expanding the Generosity of the Statutory Sickness Insurance System
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Karlsson, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This article evaluates an expansion of employer-mandated sick leave from 80 to 100 percent of forgone gross wages in Germany. We employ and compare parametric difference-in-difference (DID), matching DID, and mixed approaches. Overall workplace attendance decreased by at least 10 percent or 1...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128043
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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: A Method to Test for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior. Then we derive testable conditions for reduced...
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