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The Effect of an Employer Health Insurance Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage and the Demand for Labor: Evidence from Hawaii

Buchmueller, Thomas C.; DiNardo, John; Valletta, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

estimates are statistically insignificant. By contrast, a parallel analysis of workers employed fewer than 20 hours per week …. We find no evidence suggesting that the law reduced employment probabilities. …

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Education policy and intergenerational transfers in equilibrium

Abbott, Brant; Gallipoli, Giovanni; Meghir, Costas; … - 2018

This paper examines the equilibrium effects of alternative financial aid policies intended to promote college participation. We build an overlapping generations life cycle model with education, labor supply, and consumption/saving decisions. Cognitive and non-cognitive skills of children depend...

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Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2004

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...

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Endogenous indoctrination: occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...

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Labor market institutions, wages, and investment

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2004

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Endogenous indoctrination : occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

; beliefs ; political economy ; labor market reform ; occupational choice ; education ; employment protection ; civil service …

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Can hiring subsidies benefit the unemployed? : hiring subsidies can be a very cost-effective way of helping the unemployed, but only when they are carefully targeted

Brown, Alessio J. G. - 2015

Long-term unemployment can lead to skill attrition and have detrimental effects on future employment prospects …, particularly following periods of economic crises when employment growth is slow and cannot accommodate high levels of unemployment …

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Imperfect information, lagged labor adjustment and the great moderation

Willems, Tim; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2012

This paper first documents the increase in the time lag with which labor input reacts to output fluctuations (the labor adjustment lag) that is visible in US data since the mid-1980s. We show that a lagged labor adjustment response is optimal in a setting where there is uncertainty about the...

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Labor market polarization over the business cycle

Foote, Christopher L.; Ryan, Richard W. - 2014 - This version: December 26, 2014

employment in high-skill jobs (such as management and technical positions) and low-skill jobs (such as food-service and … over long periods of time. The authors of this paper construct a new dataset of occupational employment and unemployment … Population Survey, the authors study how recessions typically affect employment in various occupations, what employment …

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Education policy and intergenerational transfers in equilibrium

Abbott, Brant; Gallipoli, Giovanni; Meghir, Costas; … - 2016 - This draft: March 15, 2016

This paper examines the equilibrium effects of alternative financial aid policies intended to promote college participation. We build an overlapping generations life-cycle, heterogeneous-agent, incomplete-markets model with education, labor supply, and consumption/saving decisions. Driven by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447151