Breaking Down Benefits: Employee Understanding of Benefits and Readability Levels of University Benefits Handbooks

Department of Labor Employee Benefits

Who Benefits from Tax - Advantaged Employee Benefits ? : Evidence from University Parking

We use university parking permits to study how firms and employees split the value of employee benefit tax subsidies. Starting in 1998, the IRS allowed employees to pay for parking passes with pre-tax income. This subsidized the parking pass purchases of faculty and staff, but did not affect students. We show that the typical university raised its parking rates by 8-10% extra when it implemente...

Benefits of using intrathecal Buprenorphine

Background: General anesthesia draw the most commonly used modalities for post cesarean delivery pain relief is systemic administration of opioids, while the administration of small dose of intrathecal opioid during spinal anesthesia can be a possible alternative. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of buprenorphine on cesarean section prescribed intrathecally. Methods: In this d...

Static Benefits Breaking Barriers

as a way to hedge barrier options when the underlying is a futures price with no drift. Derman, Ergener & Hani (1994) relaxed this drift restriction by introducing an algorithm for hedging barrier options in a bi-nomial model, using options with a single strike but multiple expiries. By contrast, this article provides explicit formulas for static hedges in the standard Black-Scholes (1973) mode...

Trends In Employee Health Benefits