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Not all countries provide universal access to publicly funded paid sick pay. Amongst countries that do, compensation rates can be low and coverage incomplete. This leaves a significant role for employer-provided paid sick pay in many countries. In this paper, we study who has access to...
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-time workers. However, I find that the policy does not significantly affect total work hours, total employment, and total worker …
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We study the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic during the first semester of 2020 on the labor market outcomes of elderly workers, using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We measure the gender gap in the conditional mean of the probability of experiencing a job...
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employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …
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care for a spouse has not been studied widely. We examine the effects of California's law on the employment of workers who … the paid leave program increased the employment of 45-64 year old women with a disabled spouse in California by around 0 …, with a 2.9 percentage point rise in private sector employment. The employment of men with a disabled spouse in California …
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' employment. This result is consistent with the added worker effect, although we find the magnitude of the increase in annual …
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improve employment incentives without significant changes in the current redistribution scheme. We provide a detailed account …
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This study provides plausibly causal estimates of the effect of public insurance coverage on the employment of … sizable and statistically meaningful reductions in employment up to at least nine quarters later, with an estimated size of 2 …
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I estimate the effect of paid maternity leave on mothers probability of employment after birth, how this effect varies …
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Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century. The main motivation for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market participation, the focus has gradually shifted to the...
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