Research background: Creative industries nowadays stand as one of the driving forces behind modern knowledge-based economies. Despite their many advantages, this research focuses on some of the less positive aspects of their development, notably less than optimal working conditions. Purpose: One...

In healthcare, there is growing awareness of the potential harm that disciplinary processes can have on employees, service delivery, and organizational culture. However, little attention has been given to the impact on those responsible for conducting these investigations. This study examines...

Female workers in China have a de jure right to maternity benefits, as enshrined in policy and legal documents since the 1950s. This article examines why this entitlement is not always de facto guaranteed as stipulated in the legislation. We use the conceptual framework of gradual institutional...

Pregnancy accommodation laws require "reasonable accommodations" for pregnant workers, i.e., sitting down, lifting restrictions, and additional bathroom breaks. Although these laws may make it easier for women to remain employed during pregnancy, as a mandated benefit, they may also discourage...

This chapter reviews the analysis of non-wage amenities in the workplace. The competitive model is the point of departure, but the emphasis is on models of imperfect competition that have greater empirical relevance. In addition to the traditional hedonic model for estimating preferences over...

The UK's working-age benefit system includes two types of health-related benefits: incapacity benefits for those whose health limits their ability to work and disability benefits for those whose health imposes significant additional living costs. There were big cuts to the generosity of the UK's...

This working paper presents an overview of the gradual development of the Soviet welfare system from the October Revolution of 1917 to the country’s dissolution in 1991. It examines all major social welfare programmes in the Soviet Union and their generosity – understood as the combination...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant rise in the number of people getting health-related benefits. In England and Wales, 4 million 16- to 64-year-olds (1 in 10) now claim either disability or incapacity benefits, up from 2.8 million in 2019 (1 in 13). One potential...

In recent years, there has been a large increase in health-related benefit claims in England, the underlying causes of which are still not well understood. The concurrent increase in NHS waiting lists and waiting times has been suggested as one possible contributing factor. In this report, we...

Individuals in the UK with health conditions may be entitled to two types of benefits - incapacity benefits (for those whose condition prevents them from working) and disability benefits (to help with extra living costs arising from the disability). Since the onset of the pandemic, there has...

Do households value access to free health insurance when making labor supply decisions? We address this question by exploiting the 2002 introduction of universal health insurance in Mexico (Seguro Popular, SP), that broke the link between access to health care and job contract. Reduced-form...

In this paper, we argue that adjustments in non-wage compensation are empirically relevant and have important implications for understanding the effects of labor supply shocks. We examine the labor market impacts of internal migration in Brazil through a shift-share approach, which combines...

Individuals in the UK with health conditions may be entitled to two types of benefits - incapacity benefits (for those whose condition prevents them from working) and disability benefits (to help with extra living costs arising from the disability). Since the onset of the pandemic, there has...

We examine who bears the costs of mandated workplace pension programs, exploiting the quasi-experimental rollout of automatic enrollment in the UK. Total compensation (take-home pay plus employer contributions) increases, driven by employer contributions, while the amount of take-home pay...

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...

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...

Over half of the U.S. population receives health insurance through an employer, with employer premium contributions creating a flat "head tax" per worker, independent of their earnings. This paper develops and calibrates a stylized model of the labor market to explore how this uniquely American...

It is unknown how labor market concentration impacts employee health benefits. We combine data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Insurance/Employer Component with the Longitudinal Business Database for 2002-2019 to examine how labor market concentration affects contributions to plan...

Fifty percent of the U.S. population gets health insurance through an employer, and roughly half of employers only offer one health plan. There- fore, the choices made by firms about what plan(s) to offer are critical to understanding the health insurance available to workers. This paper focuses...

Entrepreneurs are hailed as economic heroes and drivers of job growth. Yet in analysis of Current Population Survey data of U.S. residents between the ages of 50 and 64, this study demonstrates that entrepreneurs disproportionately lack health insurance and workplace retirement savings program...

Despite the magnitude and variety of benefits paid to faculty, there has been little attention given to these benefits. It is important to evaluate how and why faculty benefits vary by institution. In this study, I focused on the levels of benefits provided by four-year institutions to faculty....

Workplace benefits now comprise roughly one-third of total employee compensation. At the same time, the choice of benefits has grown increasingly complex. Using a novel survey at 15 universities linked with administrative data on retirement accounts, we examine employee decision-making related...

Public Benevolent Institutions (PBIs) are a class of charity which are entitled to access a Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) Concession. We explore the history of this concession and how it has evolved since its introduction. The paper also identifies barriers which inhibit access to the FBT Concession...

This paper investigates the sources of information and their quality as accessible to the government of the Federal Republic of Germany when trying to assess the situation of company funded pensions between 1949 and 1985 for the Company Pension Act of 1974. By taking a closer look at multiple...

This research on the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility in maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage in the health insurance industry was carried out because of poor performance of health insurance organizations such as First Mutual Health Zimbabwe, Zimnat Lion Insurance...

In order to achieve universal health coverage, the full involvement of informal-sector workers in healthinsurance schemes is necessary. In Tanzania, measures targeting informal-sector workers have been evolving over time. Earlier researchers reported low participation of such workers in the...

When a firm offers health benefits to workers, it exposes the firm to the risk of making payments when workers get sick. A firm can either pay health expenses out of its general assets, keeping the risk inside the firm, or it can purchase insurance, shifting the risk outside the firm. Using data...

This Article interrogates the current and future role of employer-sponsored health insurance in reproductive choice, revealing the magnitude of impact that employers’ insurance coverage choices have on Americans’ access to reproductive care, as well as the legal infrastructure that...

Millions of workers in Ontario have no access to supplemental health and dental benefits that reimburse most costs for prescription drugs, dental, vision and mental health services. These services are indisputably essential to good health, productivity and financial security for workers and...

Employers may respond to minimum wage increases by adjusting their health benefits. We examine the impact of state minimum wage increases on employer health benefit offerings using the 2002-2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey – Insurance/Employer Component data. Our primary regression...