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Physical stature is used as a proxy for the biological standard of living in thetwo Germanies before and after unification in an analysis of a cross-sectionalsample (1998) of adult heights, as well as among military recruits of the1990s. West Germans tended to be taller than East Germans...
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benefits and tax credits among "comparable" households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice model of …
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Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform … increased the amount of benefits and introduced working requirements. Using a quasi-experimental model, Mogstad and Pronzato … earnings and welfare participation decisions, and use the behavioural estimates to derive the policy parameters which would …
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Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness-related absences from the workplace. In several countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers’ sickness absences. However, this insurance may create moral hazard problems for firms, leading to the...
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municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with relatively high benefits and low incentives for single mothers to leave welfare for …We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two … work. In our analysis, we make a distinction between native and immigrant welfare recipients. For immigrant single mothers …
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worse off in terms of welfare, as the dividend income accruing to its residents declines. Accordingly, the bonus tax can be … interpreted as a transfer from the worldwide shareholders to the government levying the tax. However, the welfare results may be … reversed when manager relocation is an alternative. In this case, welfare in the country introducing the tax is lower than in …
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This paper studies the determination of informal long-term care (family aid) to dependent elderly in a worst case scenario concerning the “harmony” of family relations. Children are purely selfish, and neither side can make credible commitments (which rules out efficient bargaining). The...
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This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the market for the medical product. Various scenarios, such as monopoly pricing, price negotiation or horizontal differentiation are considered. The insurance contract specifies...
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I study a model of a representative individual who has a motive for leaving bequests and is at risk of needing long-term care in old age. I assume - as is typical for OECD countries - that the individual is not fully insured against this risk. Moreover, at realization the individual is unable to...
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This paper examines whether myopia (misperception of the long-term care (LTC) risk) and private insurance market loading costs can justify social LTC insurance and/or the subsidization of private insurance. We use a two-period model wherein individuals differ in three unobservable...
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