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Labor Market Institutions and Demographic Employment Patterns

Bertola, Giuseppe; Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2021

allows us to control for unmeasured country-specific factors that affect relative employment and unemployment, we find that … of young and older individuals relative to the prime-aged, with no significant effects on the relative unemployment of … raises female unemployment relative to male unemployment. These results suggest that union wage-setting policies price the …

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Unemployment and the Demand for Unions

Blanchflower, David G. - 2007

approach, we find that union density is greatest, ceteris paribus, within establishments in areas of high unemployment …

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Surprise! Out-of-Network Billing for Emergency Care in the United States

Cooper, Zack - 2017

Hospitals and physicians independently negotiate contracts with insurers. As a result, a privately insured individual can attend an in-network hospital emergency department, but receive care and potentially a large, unexpected bill from an out-of-network emergency physician working at that...

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Do Male Workers Prefer Male Leaders? An Analysis of Principals' Effects on Teacher Retention

Husain, Aliza N. - 2018

Using a 40-year panel of all public school teachers and principals in New York State, we explore how female principals affect rates of teacher turnover—an important determinant of school quality. We find that male teachers are about 12% more likely to leave their schools when they work under...

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The Effects of Income on Children's Health : Evidence from Supplemental Security Income Eligibility Under New York State Medicaid

Ko, Hansoo; Howland, Renata; Glied, Sherry - 2022

There is a well-established association between income and child health. We examine the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, which provides cash assistance to low-income children with disabilities, to assess how this relationship arises. We use a large database of Medicaid administrative...

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Support for Paid Family Leave Among Small Employers Increases During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Bartel, Ann; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher J.; … - 2022

The United States is one of the few countries that does not guarantee paid family leave (PFL) to workers. Proposals for PFL legislation are often met with opposition from employer organizations, who fear disruptions to business, especially among small employers. But there has been limited data...

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The Use of Replacement Workers in Union Contract Negotiations : The U.S. Experience, 1980-1989

Cramton, Peter C.; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2021

It is argued in many circles that a structural change occurred in U.S. collective bargaining in the 1980s. We investigate the extent to which the hiring of replacement workers can account for this change. For a sample of over 300 major strikes since 1980, we estimate the likelihood of...

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Individual Rights and Collective Agents : The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets

Weil, David N. - 2021

Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g. unions) or indirectly (e.g. insurance...

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When to Start a Fight and When to Fight Back : Liability Disputes in the Workers' Compensation System

Card, David E. - 2010

Despite the adoption of no-fault Workers' Compensation legislation in most states, there is substantial litigation over the issue of employer liability for injury claims. We develop a sequential asymmetric information model of liability disputes and estimate the model using data on injury claims...

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Family Firms, Paternalism, and Labor Relations

Müller, Holger M. - 2007

Using firm-, industry-, and country-level data, we document a link between family ownership and labor relations. Across countries, we find that family ownership is relatively more prevalent in countries in which labor relations are difficult, consistent with firm-level evidence suggesting that...

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