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Despite the fact that there are over a million new cancer cases detected in the U.S. every year, none of retirement-health literature focuses specifically on the effect that cancer has on retirement. Social Security may offer a pathway to retirement for eligible workers but the separate effects...
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In the United States, the employment rate is nearly flat across wealth quintiles with the exception of the first … quintile. Correlations between wealth and employment are close to zero or moderately positive. However, incomplete markets … employment. Using a fairly standard incomplete markets model calibrated to match the distribution of wealth, I find that …
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This paper examines married women's time allocation to market hours and spousal care in the event of their husbands' disability and its implications for evaluating the insurance value of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. First, I find that while spousal labor supply...
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Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian registry data, we exploit the random nature of single, early miscarriages to examine the impact of pregnancy loss on parental investment and family outcomes. We find that pregnancy...
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reduces the employment of uneducated single men by 7% - 10%. Important policy implications are drawn. -- Regression …
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marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …
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We use Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey to explore the labor market impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Specifically, we adopt a unique identification strategy to examine the heterogeneous causal effects of the COVID-19 economic shutdown by governments on hours worked across the...
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