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This paper reviews the evidence on welfare time limits in the United States. It primarily refers to experimental and … econometric evaluations. Time limits affect welfare recipients both before and after their limits are reached. Time limits reduce … of time-limit leavers, however, continues to receive Food Stamps, Medicaid, etc. The impact on employment is mixed …
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quantitative time while the reasonable man lives and follows practical norms in the duration of intersubjectivities. … actions and to the desires of other persons. And, more than that, an action doesn?t happen into a physical time but inside a … duration. Hence, my crucial claim in this paper is the following : the practical difference that the function of law can make …
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This article analyses the relationship between the duration of sick leave, income and health insurance. The analysis is … 2005. The estimates are calculated using a discrete time-proportional hazard model that allows for unobserved heterogeneity …. Estimation results show that current wage has a negative effect on the duration of sick leave. Moreover, the different Health …
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In many countries, sickness absence financed by generous insurance benefits has become an important concern in the policy debate. It turns out that there are strong variations in absence behavior between local geographical areas, and it has been difficult to explain these variations by...
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This paper analyzes the impact of a country’s level of benefit morale on generosity of sick pay entitlements by means of a political economy model and an empirical investigation. Higher benefit morale reduces the incidence of absence. On the one hand, this makes insurance cheaper with the...
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In this paper we treat an individual’s health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is assumed that the individual is either able or unable to work. A continuous treatment of an individual’s health sheds new light on the role of...
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This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...
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