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A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
Goolsbee, Austan D.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2015
This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513163
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A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
Goolsbee, Austan D.; Krueger, Alan B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196652
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Is Work Bad for Health? The Role of Constraint vs Choice
Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve - 2014
This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … work found in the literature is based on situations in which workers have essentially no control (no choice) over the … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333267
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Can US Coordination Failure Explain Why Americans Work So Much More than Europeans?
Schiff, Maurice - 2014
Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain … significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that the opposite may be true and that Americans work … externality that is internalized in Europe through laws on the minimum amount of vacation time (and maximum hours of work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352309
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Migration, ethnicity and economic integration
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation, ethnic identities and attitudes towards immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269634
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Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
. Empirical evidence studying economic behavior like work participation, earnings and housing decisions demonstrates the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272025
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Disability and work: the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274395
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Persistencies in the labour market
Frijters, Paul; Lindeboom, Maarten; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2009
transition rates. We focus on hysteresis effects of the durations and incidence of previous spells out of work. We estimate … rates to work, and sometimes also from work. The quantitative magnitude of persistency and hysteresis effects on inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277329
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The effect of an acute health shock on work behavior: Evidence from different health care regimes
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Kleinjans, Kristin J.; Larsen, Mona - 2011
We study how severe acute health shocks affect the probability of not working in the U. S. versus in Denmark. The results not only provide insight into how relative disease risk affects labor force participation at older ages, but also into how different types of health care and health insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278465
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It's About Time: Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Time Use
Colman, Gregory; Dave, Dhaval M. - 2016
insurance and change in work time appear to have increased their subjective well-being, enabling them to spend time on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479228