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discuss the macroeconomic implications of U.S. welfare reform, and then conclude by analyzing the effectiveness of the U …
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discuss the macroeconomic implications of U.S. welfare reform, and then conclude by analyzing the effectiveness of the U …
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sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the welfare effects of giving a larger role to private insurance markets in the face of … welfare calculations. We find that observed willingness-to-pay of many individuals is low, such that providing DI partly via a … private insurance market with choice improves welfare. However, we show that distributional concerns as well as individual …
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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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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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heterogeneous welfare effects of labor market integration. Whereas individuals without residential property lose from immigration …
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In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … the AFDC and TANF programs, we first emphasize that the literature, by and large, has assumed that the rules of those … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …
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Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment …
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, as well as eligibility-rules for a number of welfare programs, such as social assistance, housing allowance etc. The … income for various combinations of hours of work and welfare. It can be used for calculating accurate (net) household incomes … conditional on labour supply while income tax rules and the various welfare benefit-levels are complicated functions of earned and …
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This paper analyses the effects of immigration on waiting times in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Linking administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (2003-2012) with immigration data drawn from the UK Labour Force Survey, we find that immigration reduced waiting...
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