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A simple model of health insurance competition

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consumer welfare than premia competition when switching between insurance companies is costly. -- health care reform … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health …

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Strategic interaction in the market for physician services : the treadmill effect in a fixed budget system

Benstetter, Franz; Wambach, Achim - 2001

market entry is possible, a budget can be efficiency enhancing, if in addition a price floor is used. …

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First do no harm. Then do not cheat : DRG upcoding in German neonatology

Jürges, Hendrik; Köberlein-Neu, Juliane - 2013

financial incentives but also with expected treatment costs measured by poor newborn health conditional on weight. This suggests …

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Explaining the body mass index gaps between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002 - 2012 : a decomposition analysis of socio-economic causes

Dang, Rui - 2015

In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed socioeconomic status from the part attributable to...

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The use of spatial filtering techniques : the spatial and space-time structure of German unemployment data

Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - 2006

Socio-economic interrelationships among regions can be measured in terms of economic flows, migration, or physical geographically-based measures, such as distance or length of shared areal unit boundaries. In general, proximity and openness tend to favour a similar economic performance among...

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The effect of firms' partial retirement policies on the labour market outcomes of their employees

Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2013 - This version: July 2013

In this paper, we assess the impact of firms introducing part-time work schemes for gradual labour market exit of elderly workers on their employees' labour market outcomes. The analysis is based on unique linked employer-employee data that combine high-quality survey and administrative data....

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Taxing banks : an evaluation of the German bank levy

Buch, Claudia M.; Hilberg, Björn; Tonzer, Lena - 2014

Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and public finances. Regimes for restructuring and restoring banks financed by bank levies and fiscal backstops seek to reduce these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic...

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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons

Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...

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Reforms of an early retirement pathway in Germany and their labor market effects

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schrader, Rebecca - 2021

We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement reforms. Reform 1 (NRA) increased normal retirement age stepwise from 60 to 65. Simultaneously, it became possible to use early retirement with benefit discounts. Reform 2 (ERA)...

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Dissecting between-plant and within-plant wage dispersion : evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2018

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important drivers of the recent rise in German wage dispersion and pin down the relative contribution of plant and worker characteristics. Moreover, we separately investigate the drivers of...

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