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Chapter 18 The economics of disability and disability policy

Haveman, Robert; Wolfe, Barbara - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 995-1051). 2000

comparing US disability policy with that in other Western industrialized countries and identifying research issues that are …

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Disability and work : the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …

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"Fear is the path to the dark side" : electoral results and the workplace safety of immigrants

D'Ambrosio, Anna; Leombruni, Roberto; Razzolini, Tiziano - 2021

Populist parties' propaganda portrays immigrants as a threat to native workers' jobs. When propaganda materializes as an electoral success, it may drive changes in natives' attitudes towards immigrants. As shown experimentally by Bursztyn et al. (2020), electoral results may signal a change in...

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Are women breaking the glass ceiling? : a gendered analysis of the duration of sick leave in Spain

Martín-Román, Ángel L.; Moral de Blas, Alfonso; … - 2022

We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days - those which are related to biological characteristics and those derived from behavioral reasons. Using the Statistics of Accidents at Work for 2011-2019, we found that women...

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Estimating compensating wage differentials from worker mobility

Johansson, Per-Olov (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We estimate the effects of the implementation of a compulsory work injury insurance in Sweden in 1978 on compensating wage differentials. This involves two steps. First, we investigate if there are compensating wage differentials on the Swedish labor market and second, we assess if these were...

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Facebook Becomes a Questionable Friend of Workers’ Compensation

Gelman, Jon L. - 2014

Social networking’s popularity has become a two-edged sword as a tool in the management, investigation, and disposition of workers’ compensation claims. Over the last several years there has been an exponential explosion in the use of this technology on the Internet. The challenge to...

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Workplace Violence and the Duration of Workers’ Compensation Claims

Campolieti, Michele; Goldenberg, James; Hyatt, Douglas - 2010

Based upon unique Canadian administrative data from the years 1996 to 1999, this study examines the duration of absences from work due to injuries arising from workplace violence with a hazard model. We find that policing and nursing occupations, larger health care expenditures and more severe...

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Chapter 33 Labor supply effects of social insurance

Krueger, Alan B.; Meyer, Bruce D. - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 4, (pp. 2327-2392). 2002

the effects of wages or taxes on hours of work. The evidence on disability insurance and (especially) social security …

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Chapter 9. Regulating Occupational and Product Risks

Kniesner, Thomas J.; Leeth, John D. - In: Handbook of the economics of risk and uncertainty : volume 1, (pp. 493-600). 2014

Market forces, supplemented by government policy, affect how firms and households jointly determine product and workplace safety levels. After developing the economic theory of how labor and product markets pair prices and health risks we then explain the effects of the relevant government...

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Striking a New Grand Bargain : Workers' Compensation as a Social Safety Net

Moore, Dylan - 2021

States have responded to COVID-19's ongoing workplace disruptions with myriad workers' compensation policy changes. While some states have extended presumptions of coverage to a large swath of workers who are at risk of contracting COVID-19 on the job, others have been far more measured or have...

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