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Are there negative health effects from losing the job? We analyze the causal effect of job displacement on diabetes incidence and prevalence. Type 2 diabetes is an illness that is directly affected by lifestyle factors and psychosocial stress, and with severe side-effects deteriorating the...
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A sizable literature documents that displaced workers suffer substantial negative consequences in the labor market and health. These effects may extend to the partner or spouse through household decision-making. Using administrative data of all workers and firms matched to mortality and patient...
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unemployment (plant closure) and applies a regression-adjusted semiparametric difference-in-difference matching strategy, which is …This paper is the first to estimate the effect of one partner's entry into unemployment on the mental health of both …, unemployment decreased mental health by 25% of a standard deviation for the unemployed individuals themselves and by 23% of a …
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more difficult to re-enter employment, which may explain duration dependence of unemployment. …
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Comprehensive evidence has shown that unemployment can have adverse effects on an individuals' mental and physical …) for on an in ow sample into unemployment in 2006/2007 and utilize a combination of Swedish administrative data on labor …
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on German linked survey and administrative data. To study the causal relationship between unemployment and multiple … effects of job loss are long-lasting, growing more profound the longer the duration of unemployment and persisting following …
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's institutional response to the increase in unemployment and poverty triggered by the crisis. The program provided a social safety net … participating in Plan Jefes on the probability of exiting from unemployment. Regardless of the data set, the specification and the …
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search and matching frictions and incorporate a US unemployment insurance experience rating system. Layoff taxes based on … experience rating finance the cost of unemployment benefits and create considerable employment adjustment costs. Our framework … helps realign the search and matching model with the empirical properties of its most salient variables. The model …
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This paper analyzes the optimal design of a single open-ended contract (SOEC) and studies the political economy of moving towards such a SOEC in a dual labour market. We compare two economic environments: one with flexible entry-level jobs and high employment protection at long tenure, and...
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The aim of the paper is to examine the consequences of displacement on unemployment duration. Due to ex-ante asymmetric … signal to the worker resulting in longer unemployment duration. To test this hypothesis we use administrative linked employer …-employee data for Germany which not only contain daily information on unemployment duration but also allows us to control for the …
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