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Adena, Maja; Myck, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes...

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?: The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

In most industrialized countries, more people than ever are having to cope with the burden of caring for elderly … parents. This paper formulates a model to explain how parental care responsibilities and family structure interact in … compete in location and employment decisions so as to direct parental care decisions at later stages towards their preferred …

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Wages and Ageing: Is There Evidence for the "Inverse-U Profile"?

Myck, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision to retire. The profile of individual hourly wages has for a long time been assumed to follow an...

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Probleme einer steigenden Lebenserwartung in der privaten Rentenversicherung: Theorie und Empirie für Deutschland

Leinert, Johannes; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

An unexpected increase in life expectancy has implications for private pensions (annuities). These can be offset by reducing pension payments, cross-subsidization of the pension payments, risk-taking of insurance companies or combining these policies. An empirical study of the German market of...

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Ageing and Mobility in Germany: Are Women Taking the Fast Lane?

Kalinowska, Dominika; Kunert, Uwe - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Results from travel demand research in many countries show that - on average - women are less mobile and have different mobility patterns than men. Recent longitudinal studies of gender specific travel demand reveal converging mobility of males and females. Moreover, in some countries results...

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The Welfare Impact of Parallel Imports: A Structural Approach Applied to the German Market for Oral Anti-Diabetics

Duso, Tomaso; Herr, Annika; Suppliet, Moritz - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

We investigate the welfare impact of parallel imports using a large panel data set containing monthly information on sales, ex-factory prices, and further product characteristics for all 700 anti-diabetic drugs sold in Germany between 2004 and 2010. We estimate a two-stage nested logit model of...

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Wettbewerb aller Krankenversicherungen kann Qualität verbessern und Kosten des Gesundheitswesens senken

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Edener, Birgit; Grabka, Markus; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

A draft of a reform towards "socially bounded competition" within the health care system indicates, first of all, that …

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Optionen der Weiterentwicklung des Risikostrukturausgleichs in der GKV

Breyer, Friedrich; Kifmann, Mathias - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

preserving incentives for an efficient delivery of health care services. In particular, we examine the inclusion of additional …

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Die Einführung der Praxisgebühr und ihre Wirkung auf die Zahl der Arztkontakte und die Kontaktfrequenz: eine empirische Analyse

Grabka, Markus M.; Schreyögg, Jonas; Busse, Reinhard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

As part of the Statutory Health Insurance Modernization Act a co-payment of €10 per quarter for the first contact at a physician's or a dentist's office has been introduced with effect of 1stJanuary 2004. Apart from contributing to the financial consolidation of the Statutory Health Insurance...

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Kassenwechsel in der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung: welche Rolle spielt der Beitragssatz?

Schwarze, Johannes; Andersen, Hanfried H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

stationary medical care system has a negative impact on the probability of changing we find a positive effect of ambulant …

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