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The Effect of Bad-Faith Laws on First-Party Insurance Claims Decisions
Browne, Mark J. - 2010
This Article represents the first empirical study of the effects of bad-faith laws on claims decisionmaking by insurance companies. One of the most notable and debated developments in the law of tort and insurance since the 1970s has been the recognition in many states of an extracontractual...
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Labor Courts, Nomination Bias, and Unemployment in Germany
Berger, Helge - 2006
unemployment, even after controlling for the endogeneity of court activity. The results have potentially important policy …
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The economic consequences of accidents at work
Mazzolini, Gabriele - 2014
This paper investigates the economic consequences of workplace accidents in the British labour market. For the empirical analysis, I use data on employment and earnings from the British Household Panel Survey and exploit fixed effects estimators to control for time-invariant unobserved workers'...
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Does it pay to be a woman? : labour demand effects of maternity-related job protection and replacement incomes
Scheubel, Beatrice - 2014
In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
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Bestimmungsgründe von Fehlzeiten : welche Rolle spielt die Arbeitslosigkeit?
Thalmaier, Anja - 1999
geschätzt werden, bestätigen insbesondere die zentrale Bedeutung der Arbeitslosigkeit für die Höhe der Fehlzeiten. Weiterhin …
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Does job security hamper employment prospects?
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Skedinger, Per - 2018
unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that … liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs. …
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State Age Protection Laws and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Lahey, Joanna - 2008
This paper exploits an unusual aspect of the policy for enforcement of the federal 1968 Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which made filing an age discrimination claim less burdensome in some states than in others. After the enforcement of the federal law, white male workers over age...
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Problems with using government measures of disability to estimate potential earnings loss
Jones, David D. - In: Journal of forensic economics 18 (2005) 2/3, pp. 155-170
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Measures of loss periods for the evaluation of lost earnings in Korea
Ma, Seungryul - In: Journal of forensic economics 18 (2005) 2/3, pp. 171-185
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Using accounting data in cartel damage calculations : blessing or menace?
Paha, Johannes - 2009
Standard methods for calculating cartel-damages rely on data of prices charged and quantity sold. Such data may not easily be available. In this paper, it is shown that a lower bound for cartel-damages can also be computed from accounting data. In previous literature it is shown that economic...
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