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In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of...
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The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity, diabetes, and other diseases could reduce life expectancy - with a concomitant decrease in the public-sector's annuity burden - but these savings may be offset by worsening...
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reductions in disability rates. These improvements were larger for those born in states with higher pre-intervention levels of …, larger and more robust to specification for men than for women. With the exception of cognitive disability and poverty for …
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entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue …
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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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identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …
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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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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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. Exploratory data reveal that both union coverage and disability status increase the likelihood of requesting accommodations …
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have impacted the rise of disability rates in OECD countries. To do so, we use an RDD design to study how a JSM program … but also in the transition to disability. The RDD exploits the fact that the program was only targeted at long … unemployment to disability and no impact on the transition rate to employment or inactivity. More precisely, individuals just below …
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