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How important is health inequality for lifetime earnings inequality?
Hosseini, Roozbeh; Kopecky, Karen A.; Zhao, Kai - 2021
Using a dynamic panel approach, we provide empirical evidence that negative health shocks reduce earnings. The effect is primarily driven by the participation margin and is concentrated in less educated individuals and those with poor health. We build a dynamic, general equilibrium, life cycle...
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Public health insurance of children and parental labor market outcomes
Kunze, Konstantin - 2022
extended Medicaid eligibility of children leads to positive contemporaneous labor supply responses of both parents. The … estimated effects are concentrated among mothers with non-white children and fathers with white children. …
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Medicaid-ing uninsurance? The impact of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion on uninsurance spells
Heim, Bradley T.; Lurie, Ithai; Patel, Elena; Ramnath, … - 2023
We study the effect of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion on coverage dynamics following the sudden loss of coverage from an employer plan. This analysis leverages novel administrative data capturing monthly health insurance coverage for the U.S. population. Using these data, we...
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The Nordic model of economic development: Shocks, reforms and future prospects
Iacono, Roberto - 2017
The aim of this research is to provide novel evidence regarding the functioning of the Nordic model of economic development and the robustness of its institutions. At first, the paper defines a conceptual analytical framework identifying the key features of the model for the Nordic economies...
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Welfare reforms and labour supply in Italy
Brugiavini, Agar - 2009
This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...
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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is basic security, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...
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Welfare reform in the UK: 1997 - 2007
Brewer, Mike - 2008
might be expected given the early rhetoric: the expansion in family-based tax credits have weakened the financial work … incentives of (potential) second earners in families with children, many more workers now face combined marginal tax and tax … child poverty has led the Government to increase substantially income available to non-working families with children. We …
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The impact of medical and nursing home expenses and social insurance policies on savings and inequality
Kopecky, Karen A.; Koreshkova, Tatyana - 2010
We consider a life-cycle model with idiosyncratic risk in labor earnings, out-of-pocket medical and nursing home expenses, and survival. Partial insurance is available through welfare, Medicaid, and social security. Calibrating the model to the United States, we find that 12 percent of aggregate...
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Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012
marriages are surprisingly as stable as average marriages, but have fewer children and have them later in marriage. Notably, the … children born to marginal marriages are similar in terms of health at birth. …
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What do poor women want? Public employment or cash transfers? Lessons from Argentina
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012
The literature on public employment policies such as the job guarantee (JG) and the employer of last resort (ELR) often emphasizes their macroeconomic stabilization effects. But carefully designed and implemented policies like these can also have profound social transformative effects. In...
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