We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S. Using two … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are … distinct from one another in both Canada and the U.S. …

Despite the fact that there are over a million new cancer cases detected in the U.S. every year, none of retirement-health … eligibility on retirement. With data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), I use a difference-in-differences model to show …

attainment. Eighty percent of mothers in the complier group found employment within a year, and for many, total income rose … despite reduced transfers. We find precise zero effects on total health expenditures for both mothers and children. However …, composition changes, including fewer family physician visits, indicate that mothers had less time to seek health care. We find …

substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers. We find zero effects … on aggregate health expenditures, but mothers saw reduced preventative care and increased mental health treatment …, consistent with the transition to employment elevating time pressure and stress. We find no effect on teenagers' education and …

We use Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey to explore the labor market impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19 … shutdown by governments on hours worked across the earnings distribution in Canada, focusing on individuals who remained …

Estimating the unbiased effect of health shocks on employment is an important topic in both health and labour economics … employment for a high-risk cancer sample, male workers over the age of 65, thus attenuating the impact of many cancer risk …

In the United States, the employment rate is nearly flat across wealth quintiles with the exception of the first … quintile. Correlations between wealth and employment are close to zero or moderately positive. However, incomplete markets … employment. Using a fairly standard incomplete markets model calibrated to match the distribution of wealth, I find that …