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Spousal Labor Market Effects from Government Health Insurance : Evidence from a Veterans Affairs Expansion
Boyle, Melissa Ann - 2014
Measuring the overall impact of public health insurance receipt is important in an era of increased access to publicly-provided and subsidized insurance. Although government expansion of health insurance to older workers leads to labor supply reductions for recipients, there may be spillover...
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Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices
Lordan, Grace - 2016
Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the possibility that women and men have different tastes for the content of the work they do. We run...
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Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2018
We examine whether exposure of men to women in a traditionally male-dominated environment can change attitudes about mixed-gender productivity, gender roles and gender identity. Our context is the military in Norway, where we randomly assigned female recruits to some squads but not others during...
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Effects of Work-Related Absences on Families : Evidence from the Gulf War
Angrist, Joshua D.; Johnson, John H. - 2021
also reduces the time families have to spend together. Many soldiers who were mobilized for Gulf War service were away from … by both husbands and wives. We estimate the effect of Gulf War deployment on employment rates for soldiers' spouses …, divorce rates, and disability rates among soldiers' children. Data from the 1992 Survey of Officers and Enlisted Personnel …
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The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa
McGuirk, Eoin - 2017
We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and increase conflict over the appropriation of surplus...
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The Effect of Veterans Benefits on Veterans' Education and Earnings
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2022
The majority of armed forces veterans make use of the subsidized training and educational benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The effect of veterans benefits on educational attainment am civilian earnings is estimated here using the Census Bureau's 1987 Survey of Veterans....
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Veterans’ Labor Force Participation : What Role Does the Va's Disability Compensation Program Play?
Coile, Courtney - 2015
We explore trends over time in the labor force participation of veterans and non-veterans and investigate whether these patterns are consistent with a rising role for the Veterans' Affairs Disability Compensation (DC) program, which pays benefits to veterans with service-connected disabilities...
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How's the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the Workplace
Helliwell, John F. - 2010
This paper takes a different tack in addressing one of the fundamental questions in economics: what are the factors that determine the distribution of jobs and wages? In Adam Smith%u2019s classic formulation, and in much of the subsequent literature, wage levels have been used to estimate the...
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Employee Satisfaction, Labor Market Flexibility, and Stock Returns Around the World
Edmans, Alex - 2014
We study the relationship between employee satisfaction and abnormal stock returns around the world, using lists of the "Best Companies to Work For" in 14 countries. We show that employee satisfaction is associated with positive abnormal returns in countries with high labor market flexibility,...
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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2022
The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the United States between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower...
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