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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
. -- Work limiting disability ; vignettes ; reporting bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895090
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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
disability ; Vignettes ; Reporting bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914037
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Improving well-being in the United States
Caldera Sánchez, Aida; Lenain, Patrick; Fleche, Sarah - 2014
Life is quite good in the United States compared to other OECD countries, thanks to strong economic growth and technological progress having lifted average income to high levels. Nonetheless, there is evidence that the benefits from growth have not been sufficiently broad based. Self-reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464983
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Firm Accommodation After Disability : Labor Market Impacts and Implications for Social Insurance
Aizawa, Naoki; Mommaerts, Corina; Rennane, Stephanie L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
social insurance for workplace disability. We leverage a unique workers' compensation (WC) program in Oregon that provides … rating in WC lead to under-accommodation and inefficient labor market outcomes after workplace disability. Counterfactual …-related disability but also leads to welfare gains for most workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447299
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Negotiation as a means of developing and implementing environmental policy
Caldart, Charles C.; Ashford, Nicholas Askounes - 1998
In the environmental area, negotiated rulemaking, implementation, and compliance are proposed by their advocates as delivering two primary benefits: reduced rulemaking time and decreased litigation over a final agency rule. The experience to date, however, indicates that negotiated rulemaking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608405
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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999
The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the U.S. between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262273
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The Sexual Harassment of Female Active-Duty Personnel: Effects on Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2001
This paper examines the relationship between sexual harassment and the job satisfaction and intended turnover of active-duty women in the U.S. military using unique data from a survey of the incidence of unwanted gender-related behavior conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense. Overall, 70.9...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262584
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Dynamics of work disability and pain
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P. - 2006
This paper investigates the role of pain in affecting self-reported work disability and employment of elderly workers … in the US. We investigate pain and its relationship to work disability and work in a dynamic panel data model, using six … the dynamics of self-reported work disability. By affecting work disability pain also has important implications for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267469
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The effects of living wage laws: evidence from failed and derailed living wage campaigns
Adams, Scott; Neumark, David - 2005
Living wage campaigns have succeeded in about 100 jurisdictions in the United States but have also been unsuccessful in numerous cities. These unsuccessful campaigns provide a better control group or counterfactual for estimating the effects of living wage laws than the broader set of all cities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267480
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Racial harassment, job satisfaction and intentions to remain in the military
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2005
Our results indicate that two-thirds of active-duty military personnel report experiencing offensive racial behaviors in the previous 12 months, while approximately one in ten report threatening racial incidents or career-related discrimination. Racial harassment significantly increases job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269224