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-being caused by own and spousal disability using panel-regressions. I find that women and to a lesser extent men are harmed by … spousal disability which is consistent with the existence of other-regarding preferences within couples. The magnitude of … effects suggests that spousal disability is about one quarter to one half as harmful as individual disability with larger …
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In this paper, I contrast the effects of individual and spousal disability on subjective wellbeing and labor supply … their propensity to work when they or their partner become disabled. The effects of spousal disability are economically … large. I find no evidence for hours and wage adjustments by spousal disability, although there are wage effects of …
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New Zealand has a unique accident insurance system that pays the direct costs of all accidental injuries and compensates workers 80% of their earnings for any time post-injury that they are unable to work. Statistics New Zealand's Linked Employer-Employee Database contains monthly information on...
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on to exhibit recovery in mental wellbeing. Adaptation to severe disability, however, is shown to be incomplete. The …
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This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace …
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In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of...
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The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity, diabetes, and other diseases could reduce life expectancy - with a concomitant decrease in the public-sector's annuity burden - but these savings may be offset by worsening...
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We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality...
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Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls … and closure data collected from bankruptcy proceedings, we show that a large fraction of Norwegian disability insurance … estimate that job loss more than doubles the risk of entry to permanent disability and that displacements account for fully 28 …
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and Dutch workers have relatively low working hours. Disability is high, particularly among young individuals. We discuss …
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