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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States : Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals' Costs (Even Lowering One's Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition

Addison, John T. - 2006

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work, workplace safety and workers' compensation, living wages, and prevailing...

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The importance of mentorship in diminishing workaholism 1030 and increasing heavy work investment : evidence from the United States

Sloan, David; Mikkelson, Alan C.; Văduva, Sebastian - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 22 (2020) 14, pp. 1030-1048

To examine if mentorship can be utilized to alleviate workaholic tendencies and encourage heavy work investment, our paper explored the links between mentorship functions, mentorship quality, and employee outcomes. Hypotheses were tested among 271 full-time employees living in the United States...

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The Effects of Employee Hours-of-Service Regulations on the U.S. Airline Industry

Luttmann, Alexander - 2020

Maximum employee work-hour restrictions are implemented to reduce accidents. However, because they decrease the stock of work-hours available to employers, they may also have detrimental effects. A quasi-experiment suggests that pilot hours-of-service reforms, which decreased the number of...

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The Relationship between Early-Life Conditions in the Home Country and Adult Outcomes Among Child Immigrants in the United States

Gevrek, Deniz - 2020

We examine the impact of health and economic conditions at birth on the adult outcomes of child immigrants using the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study. Our sample consists of children from 39 countries who were brought to the United States before the age of 13. We estimate immigrant...

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