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Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by … estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria … removed 14.4 percent of recipients from the program and reduced benefits by 20 percent, on average. In response, employment …
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employer-provided health insurance and employer payments for FICA taxes has contributed to the growth in observed and actual … for men working full-time and year round. She finds that the decreased availability of jobs with health benefits has had a … substantially more unequal since 1979 than the traditional measure based on wages alone indicates. …
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In this study, we examine how the market concentration in the insurance industry impacts employment and wages. We use … panel data, with fixed effects, to find that a higher market concentration is associated with lower employment in the … industry. Additionally, we find that market concentration is associated with a lower share of wages. However, we do not find …
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This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours,overtime hours and overtime premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literaturethat emphasises the role of firm-specific human capital and that explores problems ofcontract efficiency in the face of...
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Does trade with low-wage countries steal American jobs and, hence, rob American workers of higher wages and a higher …
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Using two decades of annual data, we explore the links between real exchange rates and employment, wages and overtime …, especially for industries characterized by low price-over-cost markup ratios, and in overtime wages and overtime employment. The … not have large effects on numbers of jobs or on hours worked. More substantial effects are picked up in industry wages …
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An analysis of working hours, wages, and employment when production requires coordinating the work schedules of …
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From 1980 until 2007, U.S. average hours worked increased by thirteen percent, due to a large increase in female hours. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household's marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure and the...
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Private equity buyouts have sparked debates among labor unions and worker representatives on how they affect workers. This chapter provides an overview of academic evidence on how private equity buyouts affect workers. We review the theoretical reasons why employees could be affected and then...
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