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We study a fundamental reform of the public Disability Insurance (DI) system in Germany. Effective 2001, cohorts born … rules require work disability in any job. Using administrative data, we first show that the reform significantly reduced the …
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sector managers can signal reform effectiveness through personal commitment, acting as leaders …
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … non-citizens, we investigate whether the behavioral response to welfare reform differed by recency of immigration. Finally … these states to investigate whether the immigrant provisions of federal welfare reform legislation had a 'chilling' effect …
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system, the rise of managed care in the 1990s may affect the relationship between liability reform and defensive medicine. In … this paper, we assess empirically the extent to which managed care and liability reform interact to affect the cost of care …
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Previous research suggests that "direct" reforms to the liability system -- reforms designed to reduce the level of compensation to potential claimants -- reduce medical expenditures without important consequences for patient health outcomes. We extend this research by identifying the mechanisms...
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differences, summarize their consequences, and assess potential strategies of corporate governance reform. We argue that the legal … approach is a more fruitful way to understand corporate governance and its reform than the conventional distinction between …
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As currently legislated, the U.S. Social Security System represents a bad deal for postwar Americans. Of every dollar postwar Americans have earned or will earn over their lifetimes, over 5 cents will be lost to the Old Age Survivor Insurance System (OASI) in the form of payroll taxes paid in...
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This paper presents the first attempt to estimate the benefits of reducing crime using the contingent-valuation (CV) method. We focus on gun violence, a crime of growing policy concern in America. Our data come from a national survey in which we ask respondents referendum-type questions that...
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This paper investigates the impact of financial incentive programs, which have become an increasingly common component of welfare programs. We review experimental evidence from several such programs. Financial incentive programs appear to increase work and raise income (lower poverty), but cost...
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sources to examine the impact of the early stages of welfare reform on poor working families who do not receive cash … estimation techniques, we find that the impact of the simultaneous October 1996 implementation of welfare reform and a federal … increases in funding for Child Care Subsidies associated with welfare reform led to a significant increase in earnings. On net …
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