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Push and Pull: Disability Insurance, Regional Labor Markets, and Benefit Generosity in Canada and the United States / Kevin Milligan, Tammy Schirle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milligan, Kevin.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23405.
- NBER working paper series no. w23405
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
- Summary:
- Disability insurance take-up has expanded substantially in the past twenty years in the United States while shrinking in Canada. We empirically assess these trends by measuring the strength of the 'push' from weak labor markets versus the 'pull' of more generous benefits. Using an instrumental variables strategy comparing benefit changes across country, age, and year, we find that both benefits and regional wages matter. Simulations suggest that the upswing in disability insurance take-up in the United States would be reversed, dropping the caseload by one third, if benefits and wages had followed the growth path observed in Canada.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2017.
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