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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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Education, Unemployment and Migration

Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker - CESifo - 2007

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are disproportionally skilled. The brain drain from the poor...

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Social Interaction and Urban Sprawl

Brueckner, Jan K.; Largey, Ann G. - CESifo - 2006

Various authors, most notably Putnam (2000), have argued that low-density living reduces social capital and thus social interaction, and this argument has been used to buttress criticisms of urban sprawl. If low densities in fact reduce social interaction, then an externality arises, validating...

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Immigration, Regional Conditions, and Crime: Evidence from an Allocation Policy in Germany

Piopiunik, Mark; Ruhose, Jens - CESifo - 2015

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 3 million people with German ancestors immigrated to Germany under a special law granting immediate citizenship. Exploiting the exogenous allocation of ethnic German immigrants by German authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that...

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