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The Social Security Disability Program and Labor Force Participation
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2021
explained by the growth of the Social Security Disability program. By 1975, 6.22% of the prime-age non-white men and 3.57% of … the white men were Social Security Disability beneficiaries. Despite the medical screening of applicants, I find in cross … Security Disability beneficiaries …
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Health, Employment, and Disability : Implications from the Undocumented Population
Borjas, George J. - 2018
Disability benefit recipients in the United States have nearly doubled in the past two decades, growing substantially … cannot currently claim benefits. Using NHIS microdata, we estimate models of disability as a function of medical conditions … for both the legal and undocumented populations. The relationship between health and disability is far stronger for those …
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The Impact of Psychiatric Disorders on Labor Market Outcomes
Ettner, Susan L. - 2008
disorders on employment and conditional work hours and income. Two-stage instrumental variables methods were used to correct for … reduced employment among both men and women. Evidence was also found of small reductions in the conditional work hours of men …
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Why Do Americans Work so Much More than Europeans?
Prescott, Edward C. - 2011
Americans now work 50 percent more than do the Germans, French, and Italians. This was not the case in the early 1970s when the Western Europeans worked more than Americans. In this paper, I examine the role of taxes in accounting for the differences in labor supply across time and across...
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Individual and Aggregate Labor Supply with Coordinated Working Times
Rogerson, Richard - 2010
I analyze two extensions to the standard model of life cycle labor supply that feature operative choices along both the intensive and extensive margin. The first assumes that individuals face different continuous wage-hours schedules. The second assumes that all work must be coordinated across...
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Why Do Americans and Germans Work Different Hours?
Bell, Linda A. - 2010
explanations for the difference. Employed Americans work roughly 10-15% more hours than Germans. Since American employment …
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Do Labor Markets Provide Enough Short Hour Jobs? An Analysis of Work Hours and Work Incentives
Rebitzer, James B. - 2010
This paper examines the role that work incentives play in the determination of work hours. Following previous research by Lang (1989), we use a conventional efficiency wage model to analyze how firms respond to worker preferences regarding wage-hours packages. We find that when workers are...
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Hours and Wages
Bick, Alexander - 2020
We develop and estimate a static model of labor supply that can account for two robust features of the cross-sectional distribution of usual weekly hours and hourly wages. First, usual weekly hours are heavily concentrated around 40 hours, while at the same time a substantial share of total...
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Labor Supply Preferences, Hours Constraints, and Hours-Wage Tradeoffs
Altonji, Joseph G. - 2007
In a labor market in which firms offer tied hours-wage packages and there is substantial dispersion in the wage offers associated with a particular type of job, the best job available to a worker at a point in time may pay well but require an hours level which is far from the worker's labor...
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Long-Term Changes in Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from OECD Countries, 1956-2004
Ohanian, Lee E. - 2007
We document large differences in trend changes in hours worked across OECD countries over the period 1956-2004. We then assess the extent to which these changes are consistent with the intratemporal first order condition from the neoclassical growth model. We find large and trending deviations...
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