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Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices

Bütikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector—the Norwegian petroleum industry—on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational margins, by comparing individuals in regions exposed to the new sector...

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Modeling to Inform Economy-Wide Pandemic Policy: Bringing Epidemiologists and Economists Together

Darden, Michael E.; Dowdy, David; Gardner, Lauren; … - 2021

Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well-being, policy makers during the Covid-19 pandemic have sought the guidance of epidemiologists and economists. Unfortunately, while both groups of scientists use many of the same basic...

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The Inefficiency of Employment and the Case for Workplace Democracy

FitzRoy, Felix; Nolan, Michael A. - 2021

While most working people are in employment, there is little realisation that this relationship is inefficient and inequitable due to mis-aligned incentives – employers, as residual claimants, have an incentive to elicit greater than socially optimal effort from workers, thus generating...

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Working Beyond the Normal Retirement Age in Urban China and Urban Russia

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; Wan, … - 2021

The incidence of working for earnings beyond the normal pension age of 55 for females and 60 for males in urban China and Russia is investigated using micro-data for 2002, 2013, and 2018. Estimated logit models show that, in both countries, the probability of working after normal retirement age...

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Economic vs. Epidemiological Approaches to Measuring the Human Capital Impacts of Infectious Disease Elimination

Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alex; … - 2022

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...

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Extended unemployment benefits and early retirement: Program complementarity and program substitution

Inderbitzin, Lukas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013

entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue …

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Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities: Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt … of publically provided disability benefits has fluctuated over time and discuss how policy choices played a role. Based …

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Health Status, Disability and Retirement Incentives in Belgium

Jousten, Alain; Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio - 2013

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

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Dynamics in Health and Employment: Evidence from Indonesia

Mani, Subha; Mitra, Sophie; Sambamoorthi, Usha - 2016

This paper examines the consequences of disability, identifying for the first time, the separate impacts of onsets and … recoveries from disability on both employment status and hours worked using panel data from Indonesia. We find that changes in … towards a need for social protection policies with a focus on health, disability, and employment in Indonesia. …

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The Distribution of Returns to Education for People with Disabilities

Henderson, Daniel J.; Houtenville, Andrew; Wang, Le - 2017

This note takes a first look at the distribution of returns to education for people with disabilities, a particularly disadvantaged group whose labor market performances have not been well studied or documented. Using a nonparametric approach, we uncover significant heterogeneity in the returns...

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