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Immigrant Networks and the Take-Up of Disability Programs: Evidence from US Census Data

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - University of Cyprus Department of Economics - 2012

This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among working-age immigrants in the … residing amidst a large number of co-ethnics are more likely to receive disability payments when their ethnic groups have … history or income and asset requirements of the disability programs, we also find that social norms and, to a lesser extent …

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Return-to-Work Outcomes Among Social Security Disability Insurance Program Beneficiaries.

Ben-Shalom, Yonatan; Mamun, Arif - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

This report follows a sample of working-age Social Security Disability Insurance program beneficiaries for five years …

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SSI and DI Beneficiaries with Work-Related Goals and Expectations

Livermore, Gina; Roche, Allison; Prenovitz, Sarah - Mathematica Policy Research - 2009

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Propensity Score Matching: A Note of Caution for Evaluators of Social Programs

Peikes, Deborah N; Moreno, Lorenzo; Orzol, Sean Michael - Mathematica Policy Research - 2008

Over the past 25 years, evaluators of social programs have searched for nonexperimental methods that can substitute effectively for experimental ones. Recently, the spotlight has focused on one method, propensity score matching (PSM), as the suggested approach for evaluating employment and...

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Long-term unemployment and labor force participation: A decomposition of unemployment to test for the discouragement and added worker hypotheses

Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Enzo - 2015

We sharpen tests for "discouragement" and "added worker" effects by splitting the explanatory variable - the unemployment rate - into a short-term and a long-term component. While short-term unemployment might not result in additional workers on a large scale, long-term unemployment reduces...

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A new look at the discouragement and the added worker hypotheses: Applying a trend-cycle decomposition to unemployment

Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Enzo - 2013

Using German data this study applies an unobserved-components approach to disentangle the unemployment rate into a (stochastic) trend and a cyclical part and to estimate the influence of these components on labor participation. The persistent trend component of unemployment, which triggers...

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Husband's Unemployment and Wife's Labor Supply – The Added Worker Effect across Europe

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Rulff, Christian - 2014

This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's loss of employment - the so-called added worker effect. While previous empirical literature on this topic mainly concentrates on a single country, we take an explicit internationally comparative perspective and...

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Great Depression and the Rise of Female Employment: A New Hypothesis

Bellou, Andriana; Cardia, Emanuela - 2018

The cohorts of women born at the turn of the 20th century increased markedly their participation in the labor market when older. These are the first cohorts who worked after their childbearing years. In this paper, we document a link between their work behavior and the Great Depression. We show...

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Job displacement, family dynamics and spousal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Schmieder, Julia; Weber, Andrea - 2018

We study the effectiveness of intra-household insurance among married couples when the husband loses his job due to a mass layoff or plant closure. Empirical results based on Austrian administrative data show that husbands suffer persistent employment and earnings losses, while wives' labor...

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Labor Market Responses to Partners' Unemployment and Low-Pay Employment

Keldenich, Carina; Knabe, Andreas - 2018

This paper revisits the added worker effect. Using bivariate random-effects probit estimation on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market participation, which also leads to an increase in their...

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