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Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by … estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria … removed 14.4 percent of recipients from the program and reduced benefits by 20 percent, on average. In response, employment …
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In this study, we examine how the market concentration in the insurance industry impacts employment and wages. We use … panel data, with fixed effects, to find that a higher market concentration is associated with lower employment in the … industry. Additionally, we find that market concentration is associated with a lower share of wages. However, we do not find …
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This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours,overtime hours and overtime premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literaturethat emphasises the role of firm-specific human capital and that explores problems ofcontract efficiency in the face of...
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From 1980 until 2007, U.S. average hours worked increased by thirteen percent, due to a large increase in female hours. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household's marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure and the...
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Using two decades of annual data, we explore the links between real exchange rates and employment, wages and overtime …, especially for industries characterized by low price-over-cost markup ratios, and in overtime wages and overtime employment. The … not have large effects on numbers of jobs or on hours worked. More substantial effects are picked up in industry wages …
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An analysis of working hours, wages, and employment when production requires coordinating the work schedules of …
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facts concerning the variability of unemployment and vacancies in the aggregate, the distribution of net employment growth … and the comovement of hours and employment growth at the establishment level. A search model with frictions in hiring and … response of hours and wages to shocks. We specify and estimate the parameters of the search model using simulated method of …
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