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This paper provides the first long-run assessment of adolescent alcohol control policies on later-life health and labor market outcomes. Our analysis exploits cross-state variation in the rollout of "Zero Tolerance" (ZT) Laws, which set strict alcohol limits for drivers under age 21 and led to...
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Could the industrialization reduce social inequalities? We use the rise of office employment in the early 20th century as a historical experiment to study the effect of technological change on labor market access for vulnerable groups. In regions with industries that were strongly connected to...
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In Europe, about one in eight people of working age report having a disability; that is, a long-term limiting health … facilitate retention of and entry into work, disability is associated with substantial and enduring labor market disadvantage in … reduce the extent, and social and economic costs, of disability-related disadvantage. …
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The problem of disability is perceived as one of the most serious social issues faced by the contemporary society. The … number of people with disability is consistently rising for a variety of reasons, including the aging of the population. Data … on disability are collected through numerous statistical surveys, among which censuses are the most wide-scale ones. In …
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-La Mancha (UCLM) in Spain provides an entrepreneurship education course, "Entrepreneurship and disability," for disabled …
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, individuals whose health is risky and heterogeneous choose to either work, or not work and apply for social security disability …
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antidepressant prescriptions and experience a lower likelihood of filing a disability claim, as compared to non-eligible unemployed … benefit duration increases the likelihood of a cardiac event and eventual disability retirement filing. …
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IV. We apply the causal inference methods to assess the impact of mental illness on work absenteeism and disability …
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this reform on workers' employment and various social security benefits (i.e. unemployment, disability, early retirement …
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Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual's career, and economic shocks may therefore...
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