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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone: A cross country comparison using the HFCS

Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2014

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …

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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone: A cross country comparison using the HFCS

Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122566

A note on how to realize the full potential of the EU-SILC data

Berger, Melissa; Schaffner, Sandra - 2015

The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is a rotational panel provided by Eurostat that … on income and hourly pay can be derived. …

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A note on how to realize the full potential of the EU-SILC data

Berger, Melissa; Schaffner, Sandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is a rotational panel provided by Eurostat that … on income and hourly pay can be derived. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124458

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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Why training older employees is less effective

Zwick, Thomas - 2011

This paper shows that training of older employees is less effective. Training effectiveness is measured with respect to key dimensions such as career development, earnings, adoption of new skills, flexibility or job security. Older employees also pursue less ambitious goals with their training...

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Arnold, Daniel; De Pinto, Marco - 2015

This paper investigates how changes in work-related factors affect workers' absence and presenteeism behavior. Previous studies (implicitly) assume that there is a substitutive relationship, i.e. a change in a work-related factor decreases the level of absence and simultaneously increases...

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Dismissal protection and long-term sickness absence: First evidence from Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hiesinger, Karolin - 2020

This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness ( six weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small establishments from dismissal protection from five to ten workers. Using administrative data,...

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Why training older employees is less effective

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228819

Mandated sick pay: Coverage, utilization, and welfare effects

Maclean, Catherine; Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021

This paper evaluates how sick pay mandates operate at the job level in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates...

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