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Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills : Theory and Evidence
Hermo, Santiago; Päällysaho, Miika M.; Seim, David G.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
data from Sweden. Combining data from exams taken at military enlistment with earnings records from the tax register, we …
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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching
Orefice, Gianluca - 2020
The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality...
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Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession : Cross-Country Evidence
Sala, Luca - 2012
price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Older Workers' Employment and Social Security Spillovers
Goda, Gopi Shah; Jackson, Emilie; Nicholas, Lauren Hersch; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated mitigation strategies exacted a large economic toll on large portions of the United States population. For older and disabled workers, the effects could be more persistent and fiscally costly than the impacts experienced by young, healthy workers due to the...
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Physical Disabilities and Post-Secondary Educational Outcomes
Shakotko, Robert A. - 1980
This paper is an empirical investigation of the effect of poor early life-cycle health on post-secondary educational choices and outcomes. We use panel data for a sample of 10,430 individuals who were high school seniors in the spring of 1972, and who were re-surveyed in October of each year...
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The Social Security Disability Program and Labor Force Participation
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1979
In the last twenty years the labor force participation rates of 45 to 54-year-old men have fallen 10.6 percentage points among non-whites and 4.4 percentage points among whites. I find that nearly half of this puzzling decline can be explained by the growth of the Social Security Disability...
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Labor Market Screening and Social Insurance Program Design for the Disabled
Aizawa, Naoki - 2020
This paper studies the optimal design of social insurance programs for disabled workers by developing and estimating an equilibrium labor search model with screening contracts. In the model, firms may strategically use employment contracts, consisting of wage and job amenities, to screen out the...
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Work and the Disability Transition in 20th Century America
Wilson, Sven - 2005
Using data from Union Army pensioners and from the National Health Interview Surveys, we estimate that work-disability among white males aged 45-64 was 3.5 times as high in the late 19th century than at the end of the 20th century, including a decline and flattening of the age-profile since...
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Disaggregating Employment Protection : The Case of Disability Discrimination
Jolls, Christine - 2004
Studies of the effects of employment protection frequently examine protective legislation as a whole. From a policy reform perspective, however, it is often critical to know which particular aspect of the legislation is responsible for its observed effects. The American with Disabilities Act...
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Identifying the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act Using State-Law Variation : Preliminary Evidence on Educational Participation Effects
Jolls, Christine - 2004
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) broadly prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment and other settings. Several empirical studies have suggested that employment levels of individuals with disabilities declined rather than increased after the ADA's passage....
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