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Disability and work : the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349212
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Chapter 18 The economics of disability and disability policy
Haveman, Robert; Wolfe, Barbara - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 995-1051). 2000
comparing US disability policy with that in other Western industrialized countries and identifying research issues that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024187
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"Fear is the path to the dark side" : electoral results and the workplace safety of immigrants
D'Ambrosio, Anna; Leombruni, Roberto; Razzolini, Tiziano - 2021
Populist parties' propaganda portrays immigrants as a threat to native workers' jobs. When propaganda materializes as an electoral success, it may drive changes in natives' attitudes towards immigrants. As shown experimentally by Bursztyn et al. (2020), electoral results may signal a change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517609
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Are women breaking the glass ceiling? : a gendered analysis of the duration of sick leave in Spain
Martín-Román, Ángel L.; Moral de Blas, Alfonso; … - 2022
We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days - those which are related to biological characteristics and those derived from behavioral reasons. Using the Statistics of Accidents at Work for 2011-2019, we found that women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254239
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Returning to work from injury : longitudinal evidence on employment and earnings
Crichton, Sarah (contributor); Stillman, Steven (contributor) - 2005
. -- injury ; programm evaluation ; matching ; disability ; New Zealand …
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Estimating compensating wage differentials from worker mobility
Johansson, Per-Olov (contributor);  … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We estimate the effects of the implementation of a compulsory work injury insurance in Sweden in 1978 on compensating wage differentials. This involves two steps. First, we investigate if there are compensating wage differentials on the Swedish labor market and second, we assess if these were...
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California's 2004 Workers' Compensation Reform : Costs, Claims, and Contingent Workers
Hansen, Benjamin - 2014
The large excess fraction of difficult-to-diagnose injuries on Monday was originally thought to reflect employees' use of workers' compensation to cover weekend injuries. However, there has been mixed evidence found supporting this notion. This paper takes advantage of substantial reforms in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067328
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Returning to Work from Injury : Longitudinal Evidence on Employment and Earnings
Crichton, Sarah; Stillman, Steven; Hyslop, Dean - 2021
New Zealand has a unique accident insurance system that pays the direct costs of all accidental injuries and compensates workers 80% of their earnings for any time post-injury that they are unable to work. Statistics New Zealand's Linked Employer-Employee Database contains monthly information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318129
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The impact of harmonising Australia's workplace health and safety laws on workers compensation
Bilgrami, Anam; Cutler, Henry; Sinha, Kompal - 2021
We analyse the impact of harmonising workplace health and safety laws in Australia on workplace injury and disease by estimating effects on the probability of receiving workers compensation in the past year. The introduction of the reform in all but two Australian states created a unique,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423745
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Have Changing Liability Rules Compensated Workers Twice for Occupational Hazards? Earnings Premiums and Cancer Risks
Lott, John R.; Manning, Richard L. - 2008
During the last couple of decades courts have intervened in employment relationships by allowing employees to circumvent the workers' compensation liability restrictions. Recent papers point to firms divesting themselves of operations whose employees handled dangerous substances as firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183045