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A Dynamic Model of Demand for Private Health Insurance in Ireland

Finn, Claire; Harmon, Colm - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The Irish health care system offers a tax financed, universal entitlement to public care at a nominal user fee, nonetheless 50% of the Irish population purchase private health insurance. This paper empirically models the propensity to insure as a function of individual and household...

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Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over the period 1971– 96. The adjustment process is industry and time specific. The adjustment parameter is specified in terms of factors...

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The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Umana-Aponte, Marcela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

fertility. These findings suggest that insurance motives underpin the dynamics of women's work participation. Examination of …

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Why Are There So Few Women in Executive Positions? An Analysis of Gender Differences in the Life-Cycle of Executive Employment

Frederiksen, Anders; Halliday, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

"Glass ceilings" and "sticky floors" are typical explanations for the low representation of women in top executive positions, but a focus on gender differences in promotions provides only a partial explanation. We consider the life-cycle of executive employment, which allows for a full...

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The Political Economy of Social Exclusion with Implications for Immigration Policy

Gradstein, Mark; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

participation, access to public services and more. This paper studies the dynamics of minority exclusion. From the viewpoint of the … analysis also has implications for immigration policies which have to take this group dynamics into account. …

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The Identification and Economic Content of Ordered Choice Models with Stochastic Thresholds

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Navarro, Salvador - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper extends the widely used ordered choice model by introducing stochastic thresholds and interval-specific outcomes. The model can be interpreted as a generalization of the GAFT (MPH) framework for discrete duration data that jointly models durations and outcomes associated with...

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Long-Run Effects of Public-Private Research Joint Ventures: The Case of the Danish Innovation Consortia Support Scheme

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kuhn, Johan Moritz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly popular in Europe and the US. We study the long-run effects of such a support scheme that has been maintained by the Danish government since 1995. To cope with identification...

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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that … with a lower level of profitability in these firms. If anything, profitability is (slightly) higher in firms with a larger …

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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performance in the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence

Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-worker pay and establishment performance using the matched employer-employee data in WERS 2004, the panel dataset 1998-2004 and the new Financial Performance Questionnaire. This enables us to assess the impact of...

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Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …

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