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Unions and Wage Inequality : The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment

Card, David - 2018

America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies find that unions reduce wage … in the effects of unionization on wage inequality. At present, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10 … unions on male and female wage inequality no longer differ. The key differences in union impacts are between the public and …

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Unionization and Wage Inequality : A Comparative Study of the U.S, the U.K., and Canada

Card, David; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - 2021

find that unions have remarkably similar qualitative impacts in all three countries. In particular, unions tend to …

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The Welfare Cost of Asymmetric Information : Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market

Einav, Liran - 2010

Much of the extensive empirical literature on insurance markets has focused on whether adverse selection can be detected. Once detected, however, there has been little attempt to quantify its importance. We start by showing theoretically that the efficiency cost of adverse selection cannot be...

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Paying on the Margin for Medical Care : Evidence from Breast Cancer Treatments

Einav, Liran - 2014

We present a simple graphical framework to illustrate the potential welfare gains from a “top-up” health insurance policy requiring patients to pay the incremental price for more expensive treatment options. We apply this framework to breast cancer treatments, where lumpectomy with radiation...

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