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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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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes: Testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011461722
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Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479385
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Life satisfaction
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well-described by four domains: job or daily activities, social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810881
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Policy relevant heterogeneity in the value of statistical life : new evidence from panel data quantile regressions
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip; Ziliak, James P. - 2009
We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is econometrically important and affects the estimated VSL. Our findings indicate that a reasonable average cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905615
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Partial identification of willingness-to-pay using shape restrictions with an application to the value of a statistical life
Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2010
Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for changes in attribute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688857
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Dynamics of work disability and pain
Kapteyn, Arie (contributor); Smith, James P. (contributor) - 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/10003301670