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Emeryville, CA's Fair Workweek Ordinance (FWO) aimed to reduce service workers' schedule unpredictability by requiring large retail and food service employers to provide advanced notice of schedules and to compensate workers for last-minute schedule changes. From a 1-in-6 sample of Emeryville...
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-employment, and a job offer to an industrial firm. Despite significant impacts on occupational choice, income, and health in the first … health found after one year also appear to be temporary. These results suggest that one-time and one …
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Self-reported health status (SRHS) is an imperfect measure of non-fatal health, but allows examination of how health … status varies over the life course. Although women have lower mortality than men, they report worse health status up to age … bottom quartile already report worse health than do men in the top quartile at age 50. In the bottom quartile of income, SRHS …
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health insurance, pension coverage, dental insurance, vacation pay, and training/educational benefits) and working conditions …
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We estimate the role of firms in worker health care utilization. Using linked administrative data on Austrian workers … utilization in a setting with non-employer provided universal health care. We find that firms are responsible for nearly 30 … percent of the variation in across-worker health care expenditures. Effects are not driven by changes in geography or industry …
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two. While there are some trends in valuation, such as higher valuation for pension than for health contributions, the …
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Alternative work arrangements, defined both by working conditions and by workers' relationship to their employers, are heterogeneous and common in the U.S. This article reviews the literature on workers' preferences over these arrangements, inputs to firms' decision to offer them, and the impact...
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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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also need access to retirement plans - so they can continue to accumulate resources - and health insurance - so they can … avoid withdrawing assets in the event of a health shock. Yet, despite the fact that a large literature focuses on …. This paper uses the Health and Retirement Study to identify nontraditional jobs and relies on sequence analysis to explore …
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Moonlighting is increasingly popular in OECD countries, with 5 to 10% of workers holding two or more jobs. However, little is known about the responsiveness of moonlighting to financial incentives due to the lack of identifying variation. This paper studies a unique reform in Germany that...
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