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We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under...
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Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we assess the role of employment-based health insurance offers in explaining the motherhood wage gap. Researchers have been aware of the existence of a motherhood gap for many years; yet, the literature has failed to address the...
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Over the past few decades, policy makers have considered employer mandates as a strategy for stemming the tide of declining health insurance coverage. In this paper we examine the long term effects of the only employer health insurance mandate that has ever been enforced in the United States,...
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household financial assets. Our results suggest that banks information policies have the potential to be an effective tool to … increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …
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combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting … for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as financial wealth sufficient to buffer against …
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Atypical work, or alternative work arrangements in U.S. parlance, has long been criticized for providing poorly-compensated employment. Although one group of atypical workers (contractors) seems to enjoy a wage premium, our cross-section results from the CPS and NLSY for the better-known...
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The focus on employer-provided health insurance in the United States may restrict business creation. We address the limited research on the topic of entrepreneurship lock by using recent panel data from matched Current Population Surveys. We use difference-indifference models to estimate the...
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The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but … circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the 2001 and 2002 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia … (HILDA) Survey, this paper demonstrates that wealth, which can be viewed as providing a degree of economic security, is at …
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with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany … countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce …
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and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial …-employed professionals. The high level of human wealth of contemporary American Jews is not at the expense of non-human wealth. Overall, and … even when other variables including schooling are held constant, Jews have higher levels of wealth and higher rates of …
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