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Fundamentally Reforming the DI System : Evidence from German Notch Cohorts
Fischer, Bjoern; Geyer, Johannes Micha; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study a fundamental reform of the public Disability Insurance (DI) system in Germany. Effective 2001, cohorts born after 1960 are no longer eligible for "occupational DI." Occupational DI (ODI) implies benefit eligibility when health shocks prevent employees from working in their previous...
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How Does Medicaid Expansion Impact Income Support Program Participation and Employment for Different Types of People with Disabilities?
Ne'eman, Ari; Maestas, Nicole - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
participation and employment of people with disabilities. However, prior research has yielded mixed results as to the impact of … illustrate through comparison with other recent work. Effects on employment are inconclusive. Our findings provide further …, self-care and independent living disabilities, consistent with a "job unlock" mechanism. Exploiting the longitudinal nature …
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Firm Accommodation After Disability : Labor Market Impacts and Implications for Social Insurance
Aizawa, Naoki; Mommaerts, Corina; Rennane, Stephanie L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
significant increase in employment and earnings a year later. To explore welfare implications, we develop and estimate a …
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Social Protection in the Developing World
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Social protection programs have become increasingly widespread in low- and middle-income countries, with their own distinct characteristics to match the environments in which they are operating. This paper reviews the growing literature on the design and impact of these programs. We review how...
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Is This Time Different? : The Safety Net Response to the Pandemic Recession
Hembre, Erik A.; Moffitt, Robert A.; Ziliak, James P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The federal government enacted massive spending in the Pandemic Recession. But was this spending scaled to the magnitude of the economic downturn? We examine the responsiveness of the safety net to the Pandemic Recession and compare it to that in the Great Recession. Using monthly state-level...
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The Economics of the Public Option : Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets
Atal, Juan Pablo; Cuesta, José Ignacio; González, Felipe - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the effects of competition by state-owned firms, leveraging the decentralized entry of public pharmacies to local markets in Chile. Public pharmacies sell the same drugs at a third of private pharmacy prices, because of stronger upstream bargaining and market power in the private...
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Financing Health Care Delivery
Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
I review the key issues that arise in financing health care delivery. I begin by documenting the key features of health care markets that make financing so central in this sector, such as the skewed and unpredictable nature of health care spending and market failures in health care delivery. I...
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Living Up to Expectations : Central Bank Credibility, the Effectiveness of Forward Guidance, and Inflation Dynamics Post-Global Financial Crisis
Cole, Stephen J.; Martínez-García, Enrique; Sims, Eric R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the effectiveness of forward guidance when central banks have imperfect credibility. Exploiting unique survey-based measures of expected inflation, output growth, and interest rates, we estimate a small-scale New Keynesian model for the United States and other G7 countries...
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International Trade Responses to Labor Market Regulations
Muñoz, Mathilde - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies how differences in labor market regulations shape countries' comparative advantage in the cross-border provision of labor-intensive services, using administrative data in Europe for the last two decades. I exploit exogenous variation in labor taxes and minimum wages faced by...
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Human Capital by Gender : a G20 and Selected Geographies Perspective
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Liu, Gang; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender and various determinants. It is a preliminary version of a forthcoming Inclusive Wealth Report 2023 (UNESCO and Urban Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five...
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