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Self-Employment after Socialism : Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104020
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Introducing Risk Adjustment and Free Health Plan Choice in Employer-Based Health Insurance : Evidence from Germany
Pilny, Adam - 2017
To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a simple Risk Adjustment Scheme (RAS) based on age, gender and disability status in 1994. In addition, effective 1996, consumers gained the freedom to choose among hundreds of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945801
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The Effects of Expanding the Generosity of the Statutory Sickness Insurance System
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Karlsson, Martin - 2009
In 1999, in Germany, the statutory sick pay level was increased from 80 to 100 percent of foregone earnings for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199809
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A Natural Experiment on Sick Pay Cuts, Sickness Absence, and Labor Costs
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Karlsson, Martin - 2009
This study estimates the reform effects of a reduction in statutory sick pay levels on various outcome dimensions. A federal law reduced the legal obligation of German employers to provide 100 percent continued wages for up to six weeks per sickness episode to 80 percent. This measure increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199815
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'Do I Really Need to Go to Rehab? I'd Say No, No, No.' Estimating Price Elasticities of Convalescent Care Programs
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2009
treatment at health spas. In Germany, the Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) covers both forms of therapy if administered in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205853
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In Vino Pecunia? The Association between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus - 2008
-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we confirm that this relationship exists for Germany as well. More importantly, we shed light …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218922
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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158447
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How Natural Disasters Can Affect Environmental Concerns, Risk Aversion, and Even Politics : Evidence from Fukushima and Three European Countries
Goebel, Jan; Krekel, Christian; Tiefenbach, Tim; … - 2015
preferences in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. In these countries, overall life satisfaction did not significantly decrease, but … oldest reactors. In Germany, political support for the Greens increased significantly, whereas in Switzerland and the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134806
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2013
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits — the Big Five — on an individual’s decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044236
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2011
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits — the Big Five — on an individual’s decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187263