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Do Minimum Wage Increases Influence Worker Health?
Horn, Brady - 2017
This paper investigates whether minimum wage increases impact worker health in the United States. We consider self-reported measures of general, mental, and physical health. We use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993 to 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. Among men, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955803
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The impact of increased cost-sharing on utilization of low value services : evidence from the state of Oregon
Gruber, Jonathan; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Wright, Bill - 2017
In this study we examine the impact of a value-based insurance design (V-BID) program implemented between 2010 and 2013 at a large public employer in the state of Oregon. The program substantially increased cost-sharing, specifically copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596164
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Do minimum wage Increases influence worker health?
Horn, Brady P.; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Strain, … - 2017
This study investigates whether minimum wage increases in the United States affect an important non-market outcome: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surveys coupled with differences-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596166
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Do Minimum Wage Increases Influence Worker Health?
Horn, Brady - 2017
This study investigates whether minimum wage increases in the United States affect an important non-market outcome: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surveys coupled with differences-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965013
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The Impact of Increased Cost-Sharing on Utilization of Low Value Services : Evidence from the State of Oregon
Gruber, Jonathan - 2017
In this study we examine the impact of a value-based insurance design (V-BID) program implemented between 2010 and 2013 at a large public employer in the state of Oregon. The program substantially increased cost-sharing, specifically copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965015
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Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland
Lechner, Michael; Gerfin, Michael - 2000
In the second part of the 1990?s Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262365
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The Value of Pain Relief
Furnée, Carina; Kemler, Marius; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001
This paper measures the value of functional capacity improvement from electronic pain treatment among a sample of Dutch … compared with administrative data of healthy workers to calibrate the treatment?s net present value of capacity improvement … treatment. The value of advanced improvement, when on-the-job learning capacity is recovered, amounts to 150,000 Dutch guilders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262518
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Counseling and Monitoring of Unemployed Workers: Theory and Evidence from a Controlled Social Experiment
van den Berg, Gerard J.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2001
We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262580
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Structural empirical evaluation of job search monitoring
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2015
To evaluate search effort monitoring of unemployed workers, it is important to take account of post-unemployment wages and job-to-job mobility. We structurally estimate a job search model with endogenous job search effort by the unemployed along various search channels that deals with this. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373219
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Evaluating inflation targeting based on the distribution of inflation and inflation volatility
Ginindza, Mzwandile; Maasoumi, Esfandiar - In: The North American journal of economics and finance : a … 26 (2013), pp. 497-518
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