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The impact of demographic change, co-morbidity and European care policies on the choice of care arrangement
Meng, Annika - 2010
Recent literature on long-term care looks at the substitutability of informal and professional home-based care arrangements. Other factors that influence the utilization of informal care instead of formal care have been ignored in conditional analyses so far. However, regressors that represent...
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Informal care and long-term labor market outcomes
Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2016
In diesem Papier wird der langfristige Einfluss von häuslicher Pflege auf das Arbeitsangebot von Frauen (bis zu acht …
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Rent-sharing, Holdup, and Wages : Evidence from Matched Panel Data
Card, David - 2010
When wage contracts are relatively short-lived, rent sharing may reduce the incentives for investment since some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. In this paper we use a matched worker-firm data set from the Veneto region of Italy that combines Social Security earnings...
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Does parental unemployment affect the quality of their children's first job?
Kleverbeck, Maria; Kind, Michael Sebastian - 2015
In this paper the relationship between parental unemployment at time of children’s labor market entrance on the quality of their children’s first job is analyzed. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1991-2012 the quality of the first job in terms of wage,...
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The retirement mortality puzzle : evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Giesecke, Matthias - 2019
I estimate the effect of retirement on mortality, exploiting two discontinuities at age-based eligibility thresholds for pension claiming in Germany. The analysis is based on unique social security records that document the age at death for the universe of participants in the German public...
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Measuring and Predicting "New Work" in the United States : The Role of Local Factors and Global Shocks
Kim, Gueyon; Merritt, Cassandra; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
productivity growth as well as local exposures to global shocks--technology, trade, immigration, and population aging--predict the …
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Firm Accommodation After Disability : Labor Market Impacts and Implications for Social Insurance
Aizawa, Naoki; Mommaerts, Corina; Rennane, Stephanie L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the labor market impacts of firm accommodation decisions and assesses implications for the design of social insurance for workplace disability. We leverage a unique workers' compensation (WC) program in Oregon that provides wage subsidies to firms for accommodating injured...
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Retirement, Early Retirement and Disability : Explaining Labor Force Participation after 55 in France
Behaghel, Luc - 2014
The estimates confirm that a decrease in the generosity of the pension and DI schemes induces people to stay longer in the labor market, and that people with better health tend to retire later. We present extreme situations simulating what individual's retirement behavior would have been if only...
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Measuring Job-Finding Rates and Matching Efficiency with Heterogeneous Jobseekers
Hall, Robert E. - 2015
Matching efficiency is the productivity of the process for matching jobseekers to available jobs. Job-finding is the … output; vacant jobs and active jobseekers are the inputs. Measurement of matching efficiency follows the same principles as … measuring an index of productivity of production. We develop a framework for measuring matching productivity when the population …
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas - 2012
It is often argued that informal labor markets in developing countries promote growth by reducing the impact of regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage-posting framework of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) to allow...
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