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Is Posner right? : an empirical test of the Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to old men
Schwarze, Johannes; Wunder, Christoph - 2010
Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that the woman's utility is higher if her husband is alive. Using self-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826563
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Does future PC use determine our wages today? : evidence from German panel data
Anger, Silke; Schwarze, Johannes - 2002
Using 1985-1999 data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) to analyze wages we confirm the hypothesis that existing computer wage premiums are determined by individual ability or other unobserved individual characteristics rather than by productivity effects. While a rather large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620769
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Self-rated and changes in self-rated health as predictors of mortality : first evidence from german panel data
Schwarze, Johannes; Andersen, Hanfried H.; Anger, Silke - 2002
. However, no empirical evidence exists for Germany so far. We investigate the effectiveness of (i) self-ratings of health by … individuals and (ii) changes in self-rated health, as predictors of mortality for Germany. Methods: A sub-sample of 3 … a valid predictor of mortality in Germany, adding previously self-rated health has no effect on explaining the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009626677
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Zufriedenheit mit der Altersvorsorge und Präferenzen für alternative Sicherungsmodelle : empirische Analysen mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP)
Wunder, Christoph (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002062103
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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : Evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction ; a revised version
Schwarze, Johannes (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev
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