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The effect of prenatal maternity leave on short and long-term child outcomes
Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole - 2018
Maternity leave policies are designed to safeguard the health of pregnant workers and their unborn children. However …'s health at birth or long-term health and labor market outcomes. Subsequent maternal health and fertility are also unaffected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140593
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The effect of prenatal maternity leave on short and long-term child outcomes
Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole - 2018
Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn … children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916767
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Monitoring sickness insurance claimants: Evidence from a social experiment
Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Larsson, Laura - 2005
The paper exploits a unique social experiment carried out in 1988 in Sweden to identify the effect of monitoring on sickness absence. The treatment consists of postponing the first formal point of monitoring during a sickness absence spell, a requirement for a doctor’s certificate, from day...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317921
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A model of economic activity in San Francisco during the 1918 influenza epidemic
Velde, François R. - 2022
I jointly use daily data on deaths and public transportation ridership in San Francisco in 1918-19 to estimate a model in which agents choose their level of economic activity based on perceived infection risk, modeled as a function of current and lagged infections or deaths. Agents' choices in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888654
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Validity of discrete-choice experiments: Evidence for health risk reduction
Telser, Harry; Zweifel, Peter - 2005
health care sector. Increasingly this method is used to determine willingness to pay (WTP) for health-related goods. However …, its external validity in the health care domain has not been investigated until now. This paper examines the external … validity of DCE concerning the reduction of a health risk. Convergent validity is examined by comparing the value of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315568
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Physician dispensing and the choice between generic and brand-name drugs: Do margins affect choice?
Rischatsch, Maurus; Trottmann, Maria - 2009
Many politicians blame physician dispensing (PD) to increase health care expenditure and to undermine independence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315601
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Job Quality and Employment of Older People in Europe
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Schnalzenberger, Mario; … - 2011
We study the relationship between job quality and retirement using panel data for European countries (SHARE). While previous studies looked at the impact of bad working conditions on retirement intentions, we can use the panel dimension to study actual retirement as well as other pathways out of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294900
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Is informality a good measure of job quality? Evidence from job satisfaction data
Pagés, Carmen; Madrigal, Lucía - 2008
The formality status of a job is the most widely used indicator of job quality in developing countries. However, a number of studies argue that, at least for some workers, the informality status may be driven by choice rather than exclusion. This paper uses job satisfaction data from three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278215
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Part-time work, gender and job satisfaction: Evidence from a developing country
López Bóo, Florencia; Madrigal, Lucia; Pagés, Carmen - 2009
This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper does not find a preference for part-time work among women. Instead, both women and men tend to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278219
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Identity and well-being in the skilled crafts and trades
Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin - 2021
We analyze the extent to which occupational identity is conducive to worker well-being. Using a unique survey dataset of individuals working in the German skilled crafts and trades (2017-18, n=757), we use a novel occupational identity measure that captures identity more broadly than just...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818361