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in Sweden. It gives a concise survey of rules of the major retirement schemes covering disability, sickness and … working time from fulltime to part-time employment. …
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. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment rates, but a high proportion of non-workers say that they are not working … through disability. In general, the low generosity of out-of-work benefits means that positive incentives to work exist for …
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We analyse the consequences of starting a wage subsidised job, marginal employment, for unemployed workers. Marginal … employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not lose their unemployment benefits if the wage is … who do not work. A priori it is not clear if those who work in marginal employment improve their labour market status, e …
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Despite changing attitudes around disability over time, people with disabilities still face large barriers to labour … market inequality to help understand the continuing earnings and employment disparities experienced by people with … disabilities across countries. Specifically, we review reemployment disparities across different measures of disability, address …
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among affected women aged 55-58.25. The associated increase in employment was merely 6.8 percentage points among men and 10 … effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men … savings as they either continue to retire early via disability pensions or bridge the gap to regular retirement by drawing …
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We assess the effectiveness of means-tested and social insurance programs in the United States. We show that per capita expenditures on these programs as a whole have grown over time but expenditures on some programs have declined. The benefit system in the U.S. has a major impact on poverty...
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This paper examines the synchronous leisure of spouses and the extent to which spouses spend time together. The time budget data set used in this paper allows for a distinction between simultaneous time-use of spouses and the actual time that spouses meet. A comparison between couples and...
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Recent empirical work finds a negative correlation between product market regulation and aggregate employment. We …
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Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …
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The purpose of this paper is to determine whether workers’ commitment to the labor force declined after 9/11, as many popular press accounts at the time suggested it would. The results indicate that any measured decline in hours spent working was the result of economic conditions rather than...
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