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Energy Conservation, Employment, and Income

Chapman, Duane - 1977

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Re-employment Dynamics of Disabled Workers

Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2001

We investigate the duration of time until the first work resumption for a cohort of people who receive disability … insurance benefits. One of the peculiarities of the disability insurance program under investigation is that the level of … work experience, and the level of disability. As a result, different people will face different benefit schedules and hence …

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Understanding the economic consequences of shifting trends in population health

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana; Lakdawalla, Darius; … - 2009

The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity, diabetes, and other diseases could reduce life expectancy - with a concomitant decrease in the public-sector's annuity burden - but these savings may be offset by worsening...

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The Disability Discrimination Act in the UK : Helping or Hindering Employment Amongst the Disabled?

Bell, David N.F.; Heitmüller, Axel - 2005

consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment provision of the 1996 Disability Discrimination …

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Poorer health - shorter hours? Health and flexibility of hours of work

Geyer, Johannes; Myck, Michał - 2010

disability status are examined. About 60% of employees report working more than they would wish with the mean difference of -3 … difference. We find no effects of legal disability status on the disequilibrium which we interpret as a reflection of stronger …

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Disability, Gender and the Labour Market

Jones, Melanie K.; Latreille, Paul L.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2003

Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results … of operation of the Disability Discrimination Act. Significant heterogeneity within the disabled group is identified …: those suffering from mental health forms of disability fare particularly badly. Wage decompositions suggest the ?penalty …

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The Effect of Disability on Employment Allowing for Work Incapacity

O'Donnell, Owen - 1998

Previous modelling of the impact of disability on employment has failed to allow for a direct effect rendering some …

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Overlapping

Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2002

We propose a new microeconomic explanation for the divergent experiences of economies in forming human capital. We suggest that the positive effect of a longer life expectancy on human capital formation arises from two separate effects: a life expectancy effect and a prolonged intergenerational...

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Multinational location decisions and the impact on labour markets

Gaston, Noel; Nelson, Douglas - 2001

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown far more rapidly than trade during the last two decades. As with the other prominent features of globalisation, FDI is controversial. The impact of FDI on labour markets has been of growing concern, particularly, for source countries. The deterioration...

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Schooling costs and child labour in rural Pakistan

Hazarika, Gautam; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2002

A conventional argument in the child-labor debate is that improvements in access to schools are an effective way to reduce the labor force participation of children. It is argued that schooling competes with economic activity in the use of children's time, and enhanced access to schools,...

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