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Graetz, Georg; Öckert, Björn; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2020

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Sick leave and medical leave in the United States : a categorization and recent trends

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2024

This article reviews the current debate about sick pay mandates and medical leave in the United States. The United States is one of three industrialized countries that do not guarantee access to paid sick leave for all employees. We first provide a categorization of the different paid leave...

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Mandated benefits, welfare, and heterogeneous firms

Addison, John T.; Barret, C. R.; Siebert, William S. - 1998

The paper constructs an asymmetric information model to investigate the efficiency and equity cases for government mandated benefits. A mandate can improve workers' insurance, and may also redistribute in favor of more "deserving" workers. The risk is that it may also reduce output. The more...

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Can family-support policies help explain differences in working hours across countries?

Sila, Urban - 2009

in working hours across countries. In this paper I test whether public programmes for family support play a role in … explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies: childcare subsidies and family cash benefits. I distinguish between … and the US. Empirical analysis, however, does not support the family-policy explanation. The effects of the policies on …

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The uneven effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on US fatal road accidents

Fuks, Maya; Gandal, Keith; Gandal, Neil - 2024

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Terror as a bargaining instrument : a case-study of dowry violence in rural India

Bloch, Francis; Rao, Vijayendra - 1999

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The rise of the added worker effect

Mankart, Jochen; Oikonomou, Rigas - 2016

We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...

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Motivating employee-owners in ESOP firms : human resource policies and company performance

Kruse, Douglas; Freeman, Richard B.; Blasi, Joseph R.; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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A few Euro more: benefit generosity and the optimal path of unemployment benefits

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Calibration alternatives to logistic regression and their potential for transferring the dispersion of discriminatory power into uncertainties of probabilities of default

Wosnitza, Jan Henrik - 2022

The transformation of credit scores into probabilities of default plays an important role in credit risk estimation. The linear logistic regression has developed into a standard calibration approach in the banking sector. With the advent of machine learning techniques in the discriminatory phase...

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