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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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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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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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Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession: The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program

Heflin, Colleen M.; Mueser, Peter R. - 2013

Although many programs redistribute resources in the U.S., two program were central in providing a safety net for those facing hardship during the Great Recession: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which grew to 47.7 million people in January 2013 - or 15.1 percent of all...

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Revisiting the Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Unemployment: A Measurement Error-Corrected Regression Discontinuity Approach

Dieterle, Steven G.; Bartalotti, Otávio; Brummet, Quentin - 2018

We document two potential biases in recent analyses of UI benefit extensions using boundary-based identification: from using county-level aggregates and from across-border policy spillovers. To examine the first bias, we use a regression discontinuity (RD) approach that accounts for measurement...

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Do Reemployment Programs for the Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States

Michaelides, Marios; Mueser, Peter R.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2020

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients during the Great Recession. The three programs that emphasized monitoring and service referrals reduced UI receipt but had minimal effects on employment and...

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Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession: The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program

Heflin, Colleen M.; Mueser, Peter R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Transactions costs and the employment contract in the US economy

MacLeod, William Bentley; Parent, Daniel - 2013

costs economics provide a useful way to organize the data on compensation in the US labor market. …

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Victimisation, Wellbeing and Compensation: Using Panel Data to Estimate the Costs of Violent Crime

Johnston, David W.; Shields, Michael A.; Suziedelyte, Agne - 2015

potential for considerable subjectivity and variation. Using unique panel data, this paper provides compensation estimates that … can help reduce the subjectivity of awards by giving a benchmark for the compensation required to offset direct and … the monetary compensation required to offset the wellbeing losses. Estimates allowing for the endogeneity of income …

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