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Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify … order to account for unobserved heterogeneity as well as the potential endogeneity of migration flows and the high …

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When a Random Sample is Not Random. Bounds on the Effect of Migration on Household Members Left Behind

Steinmayr, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

A key problem in the literature on the economics of migration is how emigration of an individual affects households …

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Alone but Better Off? Adult Child Migration and Health of Elderly Parents in Moldova

Böhme, Marcus; Persian, Ruth; Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Increasing labor migration and simultaneous aging of societies are two important demographic developments many poor … investigates the e ect of migration on various dimensions of elderly health using unique data from Moldova, which has one of the … highest emigration rates in the world. We nd positive migration e ects on the body mass index (BMI), mobility and self …

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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture?

Tauchmann, Harald - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in the East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the collapse of the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By analyzing individual data, we find that East-Germany...

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The Social Costs of Health-related Early Retirement in Germany: Evidence from the German Socio-economic Panel

Hostenkamp, Gisela; Stolpe, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

This study investigates the role of stratification of health and income in the social cost of health-related early retirement, as evidenced in the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP). We interpret early retirement as a mechanism to limit work-related declines in health that allows poorer and...

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The Welfare Costs of HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe: An Empirical Assessment Using the Economic Value-of-Life Approach

Fimpel, Julia; Stolpe, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

Based on the aggregation of individual willingness-to-pay for a statistical life, we calibrate an intertemporal optimization model to determine the aggregate welfare losses from HIV/AIDS in 25 Eastern European countries. Assuming a discount rate of three percent, we find a total welfare loss for...

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Optimal Health and Retirement Policies amid Population Aging

Hostenkamp, Gisela; Stolpe, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

This paper develops a simple analytical framework in which optimal health and retirement policies amid population aging can be discussed. To be efficient, these policies must recognize and exploit the dynamic complementarities between the timing of retirement, the size of lifecycle labour income...

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The Health Gradient and Early Retirement: Evidence from the German Socio-economic Panel

Hostenkamp, Gisela; Stolpe, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

This paper examines the role of the health gradient ; the positive correlation between household income and health – in individual retirement behavior, using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP). We first estimate agegroup-specific health gradients and find their slope increases...

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Optimal Sequencing of Antiretroviral Drug Cocktails under Uncertainty and Irreversibility

Bezabih, Mintewab; Stolpe, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This paper develops a real options approach to the optimal sequencing of antiretroviral drug cocktails for HIV/AIDS patients in resource-poor settings. The analysis focuses on the implications of endogenous resistance mutations in the virus that reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of...

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The Impact of New Drug Launches on the Loss of Labor from Disease and Injury: Evidence from German Panel Data

Bui, Van; Stolpe, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This paper studies the evolution of early retirement due to disease and injury in the German labor force between 1988 and 2004. Using data from the German Federation of Public Pension Providers, the IMS Health Drug Launches database and the WHO Mortality Database, we show that new drug launches...

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