Comment on: "Turbulent firms, turbulent wages?" by Comin, Groshen, and Rabin
In: Journal of Monetary Economics, Band 56, Heft 1, S. 134-136
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In: Journal of Monetary Economics, Band 56, Heft 1, S. 134-136
In: Journal of labor economics: JOLE, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 729-754
ISSN: 1537-5307
In: Oxford scholarship online
In: Economics and Finance
In: The Geneva risk and insurance review, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 1-23
ISSN: 1554-9658
In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15145
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w27709
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In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14169
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w26513
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In: American economic review, Band 105, Heft 10, S. 2986-3029
ISSN: 1944-7981
We provide a life-cycle framework for comparing insurance and disincentive effects of disability benefits. The risks that individuals face and the parameters of the Disability Insurance (DI) program are estimated from consumption, health, disability insurance, and wage data. We characterize the effects of disability insurance and study how policy reforms impact behavior and welfare. DI features high rejection rates of disabled applicants and some acceptance of healthy applicants. Despite worse incentives, welfare increases as programs become less strict or generosity increases. Disability insurance interacts with welfare programs: making unconditional means-tested programs more generous improves disability insurance targeting and increases welfare. (JEL D14, J24, J65)
In: American economic review, Band 104, Heft 5, S. 122-126
ISSN: 1944-7981
This paper contributes to the debate regarding trends in consumption inequality in the United States. We present a new measure of consumption inequality based on the redesigned 1999-2011 PSID. We impute consumption to the families observed before 1999 using the more comprehensive consumption data available from 1999 onward. One advantage of this procedure is in sample verification of the quality of the imputation procedure; another is that it yields a long time series (1967-2010). Consumption inequality was stable in the 1970s, as was income inequality. It increased significantly after 1980. The Great Recession was associated with a decline in consumption inequality.
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 121, Heft 553, S. 678-706
ISSN: 1468-0297
In: NBER Working Paper No. w15962
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w15739
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w15914
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In: Journal of political economy, Band 117, Heft 3, S. 555-590
ISSN: 1537-534X