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Demographic Change and Regional Labour Markets: The Case of Eastern Germany
Henschel, Beate; Pohl, Carsten; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2008
Demographic change will be one of the most challenging issues for industrialized economies in the decades to come. In this paper, we focus on the impact of demographic change on labour markets. By setting up a stylized model of a regional labour market, we are able to analyze the interaction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405965
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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space
Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - CESifo - 2015
This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272626
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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - CESifo - 2013
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality register 1995 …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877909
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On the Policy Implications of Changing Longevity
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - CESifo - 2012
Our societies are witnessing a steady increase in longevity. This demographic evolution is accompanied by some convergence across countries, whereas substantial longevity inequalities persist within nations. The goal of this paper is to survey some crucial implications of changing longevity on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693471
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Financing and Funding Health Care: Optimal Policy and Political Implementability
Nuscheler, Robert; Roeder, Kerstin - CESifo - 2014
Health care financing and funding are usually analyzed in isolation. This paper combines the corresponding strands of the literature and thereby advances our understanding of the important interaction between them. We investigate the impact of three modes of health care financing, namely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812491
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The Welfare Effects of Health-based Food Tax Policy
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Härkänen, Tommi; Pietinen, Pirjo; … - CESifo - 2011
This paper examines the effects of health-oriented food tax reforms on the distribution of tax payments, food demand and health outcomes. Unlike earlier work, we also take into account the uncertainty related to both demand estimation and health estimates and report the confidence intervals for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371340
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Financing Long-Term Care: Ex-ante, Ex-post or Both?
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Courbage, Christophe; Swartz, Katherine - CESifo - 2014
This paper examines the heterogeneity in the public financing of long-term care (LTC), and the wide-ranging instruments in place to finance long-term care services. We distinguish and classify the institutional responses to the need for LTC financing as ex-ante (occurring prior to when the need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096355
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Lost in America: Evidence on Local Sales Taxes from National Panel Data
Agrawal, David - CESifo - 2014
This paper studies comprehensive national panel data of local option sales taxes at the monthly frequency. I calculate state-by-month population weighted averages of local sales tax rates. I document ten stylized facts concerning the time series patterns and spatial dynamics of local sales...
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Does Fiscal Oversight Matter?
Christofzik, Désirée; Kessing, Sebastian - CESifo - 2014
A gradually introduced reform of local government accounting made it temporarily likely for municipalities in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia to avoid the effective control of their budget by the authorities in charge with overseeing local government budgets and enforcing the existing...
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How Significant are Fiscal Interactions in Federations? A Meta-Regression Analysis
Costa-i-Font, Joan; De-Albuquerque, Filipe; … - CESifo - 2011
A large literature examines government fiscal interactions in federations. However, the empirical evidence is scattered and inconclusive, especially with respect to the size of interactions, as well as the institutional and economic determinants underpinning them. This paper uses meta-regression...
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