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Divorce and the Excess Burden of Lawyers
Halla, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
length of the divorce process and on the quality of the divorce settlement. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762445
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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95
Koeniger, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
and car insurance using data from the UK. The main empirical results are: - higher labor income risk induces a higher … demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703033
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A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care
Bolhaar, Jonneke; Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822176
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Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions
Bertola, Giuseppe; Koeniger, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non …-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private … of insurance on unobservable effort and saving choices as well as the relative cost of public and private insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678696
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Surprising Selection Effects in the UK Car Insurance Market
Cannon, Edmund; Cipriani, Giam Pietro; Bazar-Rosen, Katia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We document a large and persistent anomaly in the UK car insurance market over the period 2012-13: insurance companies … charged a higher premium for third-party (liability) insurance than comprehensive insurance (which includes third … that consumers are too confused or too poorly informed to arbitrage and that sellers of car insurance do not implement the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010773917
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Management of Knowledge Workers
Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757344
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703686
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Crime, Prosecutors, and the Certainty of Conviction
Entorf, Horst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper tests predictions of a structural, augmented supply-of-offenders model regarding the relative effects of police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal prosecution process in Germany, empirical evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003933
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Access to Justice and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Brazil's Special Civil Tribunals
Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283566
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Labor Mobility, Social Network Effects, and Innovative Activity
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003473