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Varying youth cohort effects on regional labour market outcomes in Germany

Graaff, Thomas de; Ozgen, Ceren; Roth, Duncan - 2018

We assess how changes in youth cohort sizes effect employment rates in German labour market regions. Replicating the … conventional approach, we estimate that a percentage increase in the youth share reduces regional employment rates by -0.2%. We … pressure on urban regional employment rates as a result of the projected decrease in the size of the German youth share. …

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Does daylight saving time really make us sick?

Jin, Lawrence; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

This paper comprehensively studies the health effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) regulation. Relying on up to 3.4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital admissions from Germany over one decade, we do not find much evidence that population health...

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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : a method to test for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior. Then we derive testable conditions for reduced...

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Protecting working-age people with disabilities : experiences of four industrialized nations

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

Although industrialized nations have long provided public protection to working-age individuals with disabilities, the form has changed over time. The impetus for change has been multi-faceted: rapid growth in program costs; greater awareness that people with impairments are able and willing to...

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Demographic aging and employment dynamics in German regions : modeling regional heterogeneity

Graaff, Thomas de; Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Ozgen, Ceren - 2017

economies. The relationship between demographic ageing and employment outcomes is even more worrying once the relationship is …

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