study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …

predicts that the portability reform will increase internal plan switching. However, under plausible assumptions, it will not … increase external insurer switching. Moreover, the portability reform will enable unhealthier enrollees to reoptimize their …

We study a fundamental reform of the public Disability Insurance (DI) system in Germany. Effective 2001, cohorts born … rules require work disability in any job. Using administrative data, we first show that the reform significantly reduced the …

Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …

-wage services in the US and Germany. We find a clear low-wage service jobs deficit' in Germany but this is not due to excessively …