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Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply
Autor, David; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne; … - 2017
While a mature literature finds that Disability Insurance (DI) receipt discourages work, the welfare implications of these findings depend on two rarely studied economic quantities: the full cost of DI allowances to taxpayers, summing over DI transfer payments, benefit substitution to or from...
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Income receipt and mortality: Evidence from Swedish public sector employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2014
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … using data on variation in paydays across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example …-week mortality patterns. We find a dramatic increase in mortality on the day salaries arrive. The increase is especially pronounced …
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Income Receipt and Mortality – Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2014
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … using data on variation in paydays across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example …-week mortality patterns. We find a dramatic increase in mortality on the day salaries arrive. The increase is especially pronounced …
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Firms' moral hazard in sickness absences
Böheim, René; Leoni, Thomas - 2011
Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness- related absences from the workplace. In several countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. However, this insurance may create moral hazard problems for firms, leading to the...
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Substitution between temporary parental leave and sickness absence
Persson, Malin - 2011
This paper studies interrelations between two benefits in the Swedish social insurance system: the sickness insurance and the temporary parental benefit. The level of compensation differs between the two benefits creating an economic incentive for parents to claim temporary parental benefit when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321128
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A Median Voter Model of Health Insurance with Ex Post Moral Hazard
Jacob, Johanna; Lundin, Douglas - 2001
One of the main features of health insurance is moral hazard, as defined by Pauly (1968); people face incentives for … individuals on what coinsurance rate should be set with public health insurance, and we establish conditions for a median …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321829
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Social Norms and Moral Hazard
Dufwenberg, Martin; Lundholm, Michael - 1997
The probability of income loss depends on talent and effort. Effort has positive externalities and therefore individuals are proportion to their perceived diligence. The social norm requires more effort from individuals perceived as more talented, but talent is private information and...
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Disability insurance screening and worker outcomes
Ahammer, Alexander; Packham, Analisa - 2023
, program spillovers, and worker health. To do so, we analyze workers after an acute workplace injury that experience … health outcomes. Our findings imply that imposing stricter DI screening has large fiscal benefits but does not yield any … detectable health costs, on the margin. …
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The effect of superstition on health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost month
Halla, Martin; Liu, Chia-Lun; Liu, Jin-tan - 2019
Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health … bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in health-related behavior. Our identification exploits idiosyncratic … for the period of the Ghost Months reductions in mortality, hospital admissions, and births. While the effect on mortality …
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Effects of work requirements on welfare migration
Edmark, Karin - 2007
This study tests for a migration response to the implementation of stricter rules for welfare benefit receipt, in the form of mandatory participation in activation programs for welfare recipients, in Stockholm town districts. The hypothesis is that welfare benefit prone individuals will choose...
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