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The Effects of Health Shocks on Employment and Health Insurance : The Role of Employer-Provided Health Insurance
Bradley, Cathy J. - 2011
We study how men's dependence on their own employer for health insurance affects labor supply responses and loss of health insurance coverage when faced with a serious health shock. Men with employment-contingent health insurance (ECHI) are more likely to remain working following some kinds of...
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Genetic Adverse Selection : Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance and Huntington Disease
Oster, Emily F. - 2009
markets. We use data on individuals at risk for Huntington disease (HD), a degenerative neurological disorder with significant …
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Individuals' Use of Care While Uninsured : Effects of Time Since Episode Inception and Episode Length
Gresenz, Carole R. - 2007
Few studies have addressed how use of care may vary over the course of an episode of being uninsured or across uninsured episodes of varying duration. This research models the probability that an uninsured individual has (a) any medical expenditures or charges, and (b) any office-based visit...
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Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women : Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer
Bradley, Cathy J. - 2005
We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under...
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Insuring Consumption Against Illness
Gertler, Paul J.; Gruber, Jonathan - 2021
One of the most sizable and least predictable shocks to economic opportunities in developing countries is major illness, both in terms of medical care expenditures and lost income from reduced labor supply and productivity. As a result, families may not be able to smooth their consumption over...
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Average Marginal Labor Income Tax Rates Under the Affordable Care Act
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2013
The Affordable Care Act includes four significant, permanent, implicit unemployment assistance programs, plus various …
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Firms' Sickness Costs and Workers' Sickness Absences
Böheim, René - 2014
In many countries, social security insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. The insurance may create a moral hazard for firms, leading to inefficient monitoring of absences or to an underinvestment in the prevention of absences. We exploit an administrative threshold in the...
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The Distribution of Covid-19 Related Risks
Baylis, Patrick; Beauregard, Pierre-Loup; Connolly, Marie; … - 2021
This paper documents two COVID-related risks, viral risk and employment risk, and their distributions across the Canadian population. The measurement of viral risk is based on the VSE COVID Risk/Reward Assessment Tool, created to assist policymakers in determining the impacts of economic...
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Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession
Rothstein, Jesse - 2011
candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven by dramatic expansions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit durations, to … longitudinal structure of the Current Population Survey to construct unemployment exit hazards that vary across states, over time …, and between individuals with differing unemployment durations. I then use these hazards to explore a variety of …
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Jobfinding and Wages When Longrun Unemployment is Really Long : the Case of Spain
Alba-Ramirez, Alfonso - 2011
61,000 persons in Spain in 1985 when unemployment exceeded 20%--to examine the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) and … family serves as a form of welfare; (3) hazard rates linking the chances of job finding to duration of unemployment in the … 1981-85 period of massive joblessness did not decline with duration; (4) the length of unemployment spells reduces wages …
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