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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
through disability. In general, the low generosity of out-of-work benefits means that positive incentives to work exist for … insurance is basic security, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant … the benefit system, and recent reforms to the out-of-work benefits have involved toughening and extending job …
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Household responses to disability shocks : spousal labor supply, caregiving, and disability insurance
Lee, Siha - 2020
' disability and its implications for evaluating the insurance value of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program …. First, I find that while spousal labor supply responses to husbands' disability are small, wives spend a sizable amount of … households that incorporates husbands' disability status, wives' time allocation choices, health state dependent utility, and the …
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Public Health Insurance Take-Up and Labor Supply : Evidence from State Expansions in Coverage to Childless Adults in the Early 2000s
DiNardi, Michael - 2019
This paper considers the effects of public health insurance expansions for low-income childless adults in the early 2000s in a causal framework, prior to passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Using the 1998 through 2007 March Current Population Surveys, my estimates suggest the expansions...
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Public health insurance of children and parental labor market outcomes
Kunze, Konstantin - 2022
This paper exploits variation resulting from a series of federal and state Medicaid expansions between 1979 and 2014 to estimate the effects of child's access to public health insurance on labor market outcomes of parents. The results imply that extended Medicaid eligibility of children leads to...
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Labor Supply Impacts of the Affordable Care Act
Kaplan, Erin; Kaplan, Cameron; Graetz, Ilana; Waters, Teresa - 2016
This study leverages geographic variation in health insurance premiums to estimate the impact of the Affordable Care Act on the US labor market. We link data from the Current Population Survey from 2010 to 2015 with geographic-specific premiums from the health insurance marketplaces. Our...
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Mothers' labor supply and conditional cash transfers : evidence from Chile
Dona, Gonzalo - In: Estudios de economía 50 (2023) 1, pp. 159-191
Taking advantage of a reform that made Chile’s most popular conditional cash transfer program substantially more generous, I study its impact on mothers’ labor supply using a difference-in-difference strategy. Previous research has focused on these effects near the inauguration of CCTs,...
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Challenges for the UK pension system : the case for a pensions review
Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl; Johnson, Paul; … - 2023
This report makes the case for a new review of the pension system in the UK. There are a number of key challenges facing future generations of pensioners that threaten their living standards in retirement and which, without policy action, mean many are likely to face substantial financial...
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Indirect fiscal effects of long-term care insurance
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Korfhage, Thorben - 2015
Informal care by close family members is the main pillar of most longterm care systems. However, due to demographic ageing the need for long-term care is expected to increase while the informal care potential is expected to decline. From a budgetary perspective, informal care is often viewed as...
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Indirect fiscal effects of long-term care insurance
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Korfhage, Thorben - 2015
Informal care by close family members is the main pillar of most long-term care systems. However, due to demographic ageing the need for long-term care is expected to increase while the informal care potential is expected to decline. From a budgetary perspective, informal care is often viewed as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381284
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Long-term care reform and the labor supply of household members : evidence from a quasi-experiment
Geyer, Johannes; Korfhage, Thorben - 2015
replaced a system based on means tested social welfare. Benefits from the long-term care insurance are not means tested and … depend on the required level of care. The insurance provides both benefits in kind and cash benefits. The new scheme improved …
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