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The social long-term care insurance in Germany: origin, situation, threats, and perspectives

Heinicke, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper describes the Social Long-Term Care Insurance (SLTCI) in Germany. Based on a short review of the history of … long-term care organization and the preceding laws in Germany, the implementation of the SLTCI as a self-standing pillar … within the system of social insurances in Germany and its set-up with regard to eligibility criteria, service provision and …

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Short-term training programs for immigrants: do effects differ from natives and why?

Aldashev, Alisher; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might …

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The KfW/ZEW start-up panel: design and research potential

Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the …

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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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Knowledge Production in Nanomaterials: An Application of Spatial Filtering to Regional Systems of Innovation

Patuelli, Roberto; Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation and economic growth. They could open the way to many radically new applications, which would form the basis of innovative products. In this context, it seems all the more...

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Crowding out Informal Care? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Germany

Arntz, Melanie; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper evaluates the effects of a professionally assisted consumer-directed program (Personal Budgets) compared to the standard home care programs of the German long-term care insurance. The evaluation makes use of a long-run social experiment at seven different sites with a random...

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On the Definition of Unemployment and its Implementation in Register Data: The Case of Germany

Kruppe, Thomas; Müller, Eva; Wichert, Laura; Wilke, Ralf A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

Unemployment information in individual level register data depends on institutional settings, administrative procedures and which registers are merged. In this paper we suggest different implementation strategies for common international and German legal unemployment definitions for the Sample...

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The optimal choice of a reference standard for income comparisons: indirect evidence from immigrants' return visits

Stichnoth, Holger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004)prediction that individuals'reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference income is not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...

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Taxation and unemployment: an applied general equilibrium approach for Germany

Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Feil, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model for Germany. The model integrates specific labour market …

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Explaining the Employability Gap of Short-term and Long-term Unemployed Persons

Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....

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