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We evaluate the potential of wage subsidy programs for reducing non-employment of the disabled by exploiting a reform …
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disabilities, in terms of employment and disability retirement. By using inverse probability weighting applied to rich Swedish … through the disability insurance program was somewhat less common among participants. Moreover, using a broader employment … work capacity, and disability retirement is increasing. Despite this, studies on the effects of policies aimed at enhancing …
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We study transitions in and out of self-employment of older individuals using internationally comparable survey data … from 13 OECD countries. We compute self-employment transitions as conditional probabilities arising from a discrete choice … panel data model. We examine the influence on self-employment transitions of labor market policies and institutional factors …
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reassessment, we estimate employment responses to loss or reduction of benefits. We find that among those who left disability …Disability benefits are costly and tend to reduce labor supply. While spending can be contained by careful targeting … work without benefits in the post-reform period. The consequences of leaving disability insurance sharply differed by pre …
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continuing vocational training (CVT) on employment, the risk of unemployment, and wages. To control for education, profession and … reemployed and higher chances to stay into an existing employment. The results also indicate that repeated short activities in … CVT are more beneficial then long activities typically carried out by the German employment agency during the period of …
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This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...
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Balancing caregiving duties and work can be both financially and emotionally burdensome, especially when care is provided to a spouse at home. This paper documents that financial respite for caregivers can influence individuals' early retirement decisions. We examine the effect of a reform...
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More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
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studies the impact of those incentive-based reforms on observed changes in older workers' employment patterns. We investigate …
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childhood, which account for the bulk and increasing share of child disability cases in the U.S., on a set of salient adult … cognitive test scores and high behavior problem scores in childhood on receipt of disability benefits, educational attainment …, employment, wages, and access to transportation and credit in adulthood, using household fixed effects models to control for …
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