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Physicians´ Multitasking and Incentives:Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Dumont, Etienne; Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within amultitasking environment. In 1999 the Quebec government (Canada) introduced an optionalmixed compensation system, combining a fixed per diem with a discounted (relative to thetraditional fee-for-service system) fee...

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Income Volatility and Health

Halliday, Timothy J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years ofdata from the Panel Study of …

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Subjective Health Assessments and Active LaborMarket Participation of Older Men: Evidence froma Semiparametric Binary Choice Model withNonadditive Correlated Individual-Specific Ef...

Maurer, Jürgen; Klein, Roger; Vella, Francis - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We use panel data from the US Health and Retirement Study 1992-2002 to estimate theeffect of self-assessed health … limitations on active labor market participation of men aroundretirement age. Self-assessments of health and functioning typically … introduce anendogeneity bias when studying the effects of health on labor market participation. Thisresults from justification …

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Parental Leave Policies and Parents´ Employmentand Leave-Taking

Han, Wen-Jui; Ruhm, Christopher J.; Waldfogel, Jane - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Utilizing data from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplement mergedwith data from other months of the CPS, we describe trends in parents´ employment andleave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to which these behaviors areassociated with parental leave...

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Remittances, Liquidity Constraints and Human Capital Investments in Ecuador

Calero, Carla; Bedi, Arjun S.; Sparrow, Robert - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Over the last decade Ecuador has experienced a strong increase in financial transfers from migrated workers, amounting to 6.4 percent of GDP and 31.5 percent of total exports of goods and services in 2005. This paper investigates how remittances via trans-national networks affect human capital...

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Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency : Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Raising Productivity

Neumark, David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policy makers to look to interventions that increase the ability of individuals and families to achieve an adequate standard of living...

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International Evidence on Well-being

Blanchflower, David G. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for "unpleasant" or "undesirable", which measures the proportion of time an individual spends in an unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on...

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Political Economy of Immigration in Germany:Attitudes and Citizenship Aspirations

Kahanec, Martin; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines resident foreigners´ interest in German citizenship. The study focuseson the roles played by attitudes towards foreigners, political interest of foreigners,intergenerational conflict between natives and foreigners and among foreigners themselves,and regional differences in...

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Optimal Taxation:The Design of Child Related Cash- and In-Kind-Benefits

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Basedon the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometrictechniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current German tax and transfersystem for single women optimal...

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Determinants of South African Women´sLabour Force Participation, 1995-2004

Ntuli, Miracle - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

A striking feature of labour supply in South Africa is the phenomenal expansion in the labourforce participation of women from 38 percent in 1995 to 46 percent in 2004. Even so, theirparticipation has been persistently lower than that of men whose participation rates were 58percent and 62...

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