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Association Between Receipt of Unemployment Insurance and Food Insecurity Among People Who Lost Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States.

JAMA Netw Open, 2021
Raifman J, Bor J, Venkataramani A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Mitigating tough times? How material self‐interest influences citizens' welfare state behavior

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract It is a long‐standing view that citizens support the welfare state because it provides insurance against future income losses. However, existing studies have struggled to isolate the effect of future‐oriented material self‐interest from normative and political predispositions.
Matias Engdal Christensen
wiley   +1 more source

Double-Sided Moral Hazard in Job Displacement Insurance Contracts [PDF]

Job displacement insurance typically includes both unemployment benefits and lump-sum severance pay, and each has provoked policy concerns. Unemployment insurance concerns have centered on distorted job search/offer acceptance decisions by the worker ...
Parsons, Donald O.
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Migrating to stay or commuting to work? How fairness perceptions and exposure shape attitudes toward labor migration

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Existing literature posits that attitudes toward immigration are shaped by the impact of migrants on native workers' wages and employment, as well as by various other material, cultural, and social concerns. However, empirically disentangling these influences can be challenging.
Lena Maria Schaffer, Gabriele Spilker
wiley   +1 more source

Negishi-Solow Efficiency Wages, Unemployment Insurance and Dynamic Deterministic Indeterminacy [PDF]

This paper introduces efficiency wages designed to provide workers with incentives to make appropriate effort levels, and involuntary unemployment, along the pioneering lines of Negishi (1979), Solow (1979), Shapiro and Stiglitz (1984), in a dynamic ...
Jean-Michel Grandmont
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Direct and indirect costs associated with declining distance visual acuity: A nationwide longitudinal cost‐of‐illness study with 11‐year follow‐up

Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To examine the direct and indirect costs associated with declining distance visual acuity (VA). Methods A longitudinal approach was applied to a large, nationally representative sample with extensive data, including VA measured at two time points.
Joonas Taipale, Petri Purola, Janika Nättinen, Saku Väätäinen, Seppo Koskinen, Hannu Uusitalo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Protecting the Unemployed in Chile: From State Assistance to Individual Insurance? [PDF]

The weaknesses of traditional policies for dealing with unemployment shocks have placed the reform of social insurance programs at the center of the public policy debate.
Castro-Fernandez, Rodriguo, Wodon, Quentin   +1 more
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Unmet healthcare needs and volunteering during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the European Union: Exploring heterogeneity in age classes

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between volunteering and unmet healthcare needs (UHN) during the COVID‐19 pandemic in EU countries, focusing on different age groups. Previous studies have shown that younger people are more likely to report UHN than older people in the EU.
Nunzia Nappo, Damiano Fiorillo, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Voluntary Public Unemployment Insurance [PDF]

Voluntary public unemployment systems are limited to a handful of countries, including Finland, Sweden, and, more substantially, Denmark. A voluntary system has the positive feature of other user-cost schemes, potentially efficient targeting of services.
Donald O. Parsons, Helene Bie Lilleør, Torben Tranaes   +2 more
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