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Meta-regression estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) controlling for publication selection bias yield … bias-corrected estimates of VSL that are higher for labor market studies using the more recent Census of Fatal Occupational … of the variable used to capture publication bias effects. Meta-regression estimates for a large sample of VSL estimates …
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This paper provides an analysis and summary of the effects of the Workers' Compensation (WC) system on wages and work …
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Alternative work arrangements, including temporary and contract work, have become more widespread. There is interest in understanding the effects of these types of arrangements on employment and earnings risk for workers and the potential for existing social insurance programs to address this...
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argued that this wide range of results is not fully apparent in the literature because of the bias in publication towards …
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This paper studies regulated health insurance markets known as exchanges, motivated by their inclusion in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We use detailed health plan choice and utilization data to model individual-level projected health risk and risk preferences. We combine the estimated joint...
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smaller bias than for advanced country currencies. The coefficient is on average positive, i.e., the forward discount at least … risk premium may not be the explanation for traditional findings of bias. The reasoning is that emerging markets are … probably riskier; yet we find that the bias in their forward rates is smaller. Emerging market currencies probably have more …
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the postdisplacement wages of otherwise observationally equivalent workers will be higher for those displaced by plant … Current Population Surveys. We find that the evidence (with respect to both re-employment wages and postdisplacement …
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We show that in labor market models with adverse selection, otherwise observationally equivalent workers will experience less wage growth following a period in which they change jobs than following a period in which they do not. We find little or no evidence to support this prediction. In most...
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the dispersion of acceptable wages around their mean. On the other hand, the job seeker may opt for a more ambitious …
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the cross section. In our model, investors' income has two sources, wages and dividends, that grow stochastically over … time. As a consequence, the fraction of total income produced by wages changes over time de-pending on economic conditions …
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