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of shifting trends in population health for medical care costs, labor supply, earnings, wealth, tax revenues, and …The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity … - but these savings may be offset by worsening functional status, which increases health care spending, reduces labor supply …
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possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefit policy changes, compared to all other effects including … income support and tax credits not been implemented. These reforms have also contributed to substantially reduce poverty …
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For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from … simulations in a formal framework based on the Shapley value decomposition and quantify the relative roles of (i) tax …
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state government spending, but no significant positive effect on state education, health, transportation or welfare … control for the state tax and expenditure limitations. We find that term limits have a significant positive effect on total …
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The pay determining process of CEOs of UK higher education institutions is modelled using three econometric … is detected and this differential remains robust across the specifications reported and across higher education sub …-sectors. There is evidence that CEOs with industrial work experience and those who have been employed by a higher education body earn …
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Advocates of a universal child care system offer a two-fold argument: Child care facilitates children's long-run development, and levels the playing field by benefiting in particular disadvantaged children. Therefore, a critical element in evaluating universal child care systems is to measure...
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Labor supply theory predicts systematic heterogeneity in the impact of recent welfare reforms on earnings, transfers, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using random-assignment data from Connecticut's Jobs First...
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that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first … part of the paper tackles the challenge of comparability of income-tax based estimates across countries and across time …. Controlling for country and year fixed effects, we find that a reduction in the marginal tax rate on wage income is associated …
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empirical investigation into the quitting behaviour of nurses in the British National Health Service (NHS), using a newly … characteristics of those nurses who leave the NHS, distinguish the importance of pay in this decision and document the destinations … that nurses move to. Contrary to expectations, we find that the hourly wage received by nurses outside of the NHS is around …
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The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers' health. In particular, we show …
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