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Insurance versus savings for the poor: Why one should offer either both or none

Landmann, Andreas; Vollan, Björn; Frölich, Markus - 2012

This paper analyzes data from a novel field experiment designed to test the impact of two different insurance products … simulated by a lottery. Risk-sharing is possible in solidarity groups of three and insurance is introduced via less risky … insurance if shocks are observable. Depending on insurance design, there is also evidence for persistence of this effect even if …

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The Short-Run Macro Implications of School and Child-Care Closures

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Kuhn, Moritz; Tertilt, Michèle - 2020

German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …

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Consumption and Savings with Unemployment Risk : Implications for Optimal Employment Contracts

Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2004

risks. Without income insurance, consumption rises during employment and falls during unemployment. Optimal employment …

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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts...

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Options to Quit

Pfann, Gerard A. - 2000

This paper develops a theoretical model of a worker?s decision problem under uncertainty about the optimal separation time, when holding a representative outside offer but facing fixed costs of quitting. Implications of the model?s closed form solution are consistent with the quit behavior of...

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Labor Market Interactions Between Legal and Illegal Immigrants

Epstein, Gil S. - 2000

This paper looks at the situation of legal immigrants who employ illegal immigrants to provide them with various services. This enables the legal immigrants to allocate more time to other work, thereby increasing their earnings. Illegal immigrants employed by legal immigrants may specialize in...

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Suicidal Behavior and the Labor Market Productivity of Young Adults

Tekin, Erdal; Markowitz, Sara - 2005

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the link between suicidal behaviors and labor market productivity of young adults in the United States. Using data from the National Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we estimate the effects of suicide thoughts and suicide attempts on the...

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Biological gender differences, absenteeism and the earning gap

Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico - 2006

In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative to males, approximately 28 days after a...

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How destructive is creative destruction? The costs of worker displacement

Huttunen, Kristiina; Møen, Jarle; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2006

We analyze short and long-term effects of worker displacement. Our focus is on prime-age male workers displaced from Norwegian manufacturing plants. We find that displacement increases the probability of exiting the labor force by about 5 percentage points. This indicates that studies using data...

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Using behavioral economic experiments at a large motor carrier: the context and design of the truckers and turnover project

Burks, Stephen V. - 2007

The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...

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