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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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Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create disincentives to work. While there is substantial evidence showing limited effects of these programs on overall labor supply, the jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal...
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This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick...
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-kind benefits for the elderly, public health expenditure, and female labor force participation. The estimation results using the … panel data of OECD countries (1980-2013) suggest that LTCI introduction substantially increased the in-kind benefits for the …
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This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of nine-city- and four state-level U.S. sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the synthetic control group method and traditional difference-in-differences models along with the Quarterly Census...
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This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of nine-city- and four state-level U.S. sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the synthetic control group method and traditional difference-in-differences models along with the Quarterly Census...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911166
and Dutch workers have relatively low working hours. Disability is high, particularly among young individuals. We discuss … different reforms. Where possible we provide an international comparison. We find that inflow into benefits programs responds to …
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Previous modelling of the impact of disability on employment has failed to allow for a direct effect rendering some …
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Norway in 1992-2003. Special attention is given to early retirement pensiion and disability pension as two major exit routes … disability programs. Incomplete information maximum likelihood method is used in several stages to facilitate the estimation. The … disability insurance scheme. Estimates of the structural parameters of the concealed health process allow for forecasting the …
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