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Don't raise the retirement age! : an experiment on opposition to pension reforms and East-West differences in Germany

Scheubel, Beatrice; Schunk, Daniel; Winter, Joachim - 2009

crucial. Representative opinion polls, often involving simplified questions about the complex topics under debate, are an … ; public opinion poll ; PAYG pension system ; East Germany …

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Learning from the origins

Yarkin, Alexander - 2023

international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants … communication with like-minded groups as mechanisms. Similar spillovers following the passage of same-sex marriage laws show the …

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Friendship networks and political opinions : a natural experiment among future French politicians

Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Le … - 2023

groups before their scholar curriculum reduce political opinion gap, and increase friendship formation. Using the pairwise … differences in opinions by 40% of the standard deviation of opinion gap. The evidence is consistent with a homophily … opinion gaps by reducing divergence, therefore polarization and extremism, without forcing individuals' views to converge …

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Social networks, ethnicity, and entrepreneurship

Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...

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Optimal taxation and social insurance in a lifetime perspective

Bovenberg, Ary Lans (contributor); … - 2006

Advances in information technology have improved the administrative feasibility of redistribution based on lifetime earnings recorded at the time of retirement. We study optimal lifetime income taxation and social insurance in an economy in which redistributive taxation and social insurance...

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Gatekeeping versus monitoring : evidence from a case with extended self-reporting of sickness absence

Torsvik, Gaute; Vaage, Kjell - 2014

We examine the impact of a policy reform that gave employees in a municipality extended rights to self-declare sickness absence. To identify the effect of bypassing the physician as an absence certifier we contrast the development of absence in the reform municipality with absence in similar...

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Sick leave cuts and (unhealthy) returns to work

Marie, Olivier; Vall Castello, Judit - 2022

We investigate the impact on work absence of a massive reduction in paid sick leave benefits. We exploit a policy change that only affected public sector workers in Spain and compare changes in the number and length of spells they take relative to unaffected private sector workers. Our results...

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Competition and physician behaviour : does the competitive environment affect the propensity to issue sickness certificates?

Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Monstad, Karin; … - 2017

Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit that many GPs, in addition to own practice, work in local emergency...

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Trade union membership and sickness absence : evidence from a sick pay reform

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2012

In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model to predict how absence behaviour will respond to the sick pay reform. We show that union members...

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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas (contributor); Falk, Armin (contributor); … - 2008

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