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The Effect of Health on Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2011
This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A...
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The decline of the labor share: New empirical evidence
Bergholt, Drago; Furlanetto, Francesco; Faccioli, … - 2019
We estimate a structural vector autoregressive model in order to quantify four main explanations for the decline of the US labor income share: (i) rising market power of firms, (ii) falling market power of workers, (iii) higher investmentspecific technology growth, and (iv) the widespread...
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Buffer-stock saving and households' response to income shocks
Fella, Giulio; Frache, Serafin; Koeniger, Winfried - 2017
contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk … significant insurance beyond that implied by self-insurance. …
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012
partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance …
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Firm responses to a more generous insurance against high sick pay costs
Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Liljeberg, Linus; Lindahl, … - 2022
This paper presents evidence on how firms react to a more generous insurance against high sick pay costs. We exploit a … reform launched in Sweden in 2015, which introduced different thresholds for insurance reimbursement depending on firm size … evidence indicating that the more generous insurance made firms more inclined to employ more sick-prone individuals. Further …
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Job search methods, intensity and success in Britain in the 1990s
Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P - 2002
We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres are the two most common methods of job search and that...
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Adjusted employment-to-population ratio as an indicator of labor market strength
Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2014
As a measure of labor market strength, the raw employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) confounds employment outcomes with labor supply behavior. Movement in the EPOP depends on the relative movements of the employment rate (one minus the unemployment rate) and the labor force participation rate....
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Assessing the impact of education and marriage on labor market exit decisions of women
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2010
During the late 1990s, the convergence of women's labor force participation rates to men's rates came to a halt. This paper explores the degree to which the role of education and marriage in women's labor supply decisions also changed over this time period. Specifically, this paper investigates...
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Cutting fertility? The effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016
The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. We study the effect of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is...
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Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Kesternich, Iris; Müller, Gerrit - 2020
We investigate how negatively reciprocal traits of unemployed individuals interact with "sticks" policies imposing constraints on individual job search effort in the context of the German welfare system. For this we merge survey data of long-term unemployed individuals, containing indicators of...
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