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For Better or Worse? The Economic Implications of Paid Sick Leave Mandates

Al-Sabah, Turk; Ouimet, Paige - 2022

Public calls for a national paid sick leave policy continue to grow in the United States. In the absence of a federal policy, many localities and states enacted their own paid sick leave mandates. We document an average increase of 1.9% in employment following the implementation of a paid sick...

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The Child Penalty Atlas

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … economic development. The development process is associated with a substitution from marriage penalties to child penalties …

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Political institutions and health expenditure

Blum, Johannes; Dorn, Florian; Heuer, Axel - 2021

We examine how political institutions influence health expenditure by using a panel of 151 developing and developed countries for the years 2000 to 2015 and four measures of democracy. Our pooled OLS analysis shows that democracies have 20-30% higher government health expenditure relative to GDP...

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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...

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Impact of policy measures and behavior on the COVID pandemic in Germany

Bethäuser, Jenny - 2024

Critics protest loudly against restrictions imposed by politicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: Mandatory masks, lockdowns, school and business closures. This paper examines (1) the extent to which these policies have indirectly contributed to limiting the number of COVID-19 cases...

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Legal Strategies to Cure the Plastic Planet : Corporate Marriage and Public Health Regulation of Single-Use Non-Biodegradeable Plastics

Gock, Angela - 2019

marriage.' Our proposal of corporate marriage is designed to move corporations away from the voluntary and unconnected nature …

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Trade in Healthcare and Health Insurance Services : The GATS as a Supporting Actor (?)

Adlung, Rudolf - 2010

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is broader in policy coverage than conventional trade agreements for goods and, at the same time, offers governments more flexibility, in various dimensions, to tailor their obligations to sector- or country-specific needs. An overview of...

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Trade in healthcare and health insurance services : the GATS as a supporting actor (?)

Adlung, Rudolf - 2009

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Does access to health care mitigate environmental damages?

Mullins, Jamie T.; White, Corey D. - 2019

Differential access to health care is commonly cited as a source of heterogeneity in the health effects of environmental exposure, yet little causal evidence exists to support such claims. We test this hypothesis by utilizing exogenous variation in both access to health care and environmental...

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Chapter 13. Social Security and Public Insurance

Börsch-Supan, A.; Härtl, K.; Leite, D.N. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 781-863). 2016

When the challenges of population aging are being debated, the uncertain future of pension systems is a topic of high priority and large controversy. The aim of this chapter is not to provide a “consensus view” on social security and public insurance in aging populations but to put structure...

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