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In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...
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rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … highest and most equally distributed homeownership in this country as well. The mortgage market in Germany is on the other …
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place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …
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an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …
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positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …
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Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...
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sustainable energy future. In this paper, we discuss the relevant issues for the case of Germany. We provide a survey of the … equilibrium model for Germany. The model analyzes the impact of introducing carbon constraints with respect to the deployment of … in Germany. For example, under the assumption of a CO2 policy, both energy efficiency and CCS will contribute to climate …
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into the German tax and benefit system. Our simulation results suggest that introducing in-work Tax Credits in Germany … results call for a high degree of caution as far as importingʺ UK-style Tax Credits to Germany is concerned. In-work support …
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. The Mini-Jobʺ reform in Germany - introduced on April 1, 2003 - can be seen in line with these policies, exempting labour …
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and the Socio-Economic Panel in Germany we find gains from economic growth in the United States over their 1990s business …-1989). Furthermore, they were more equitably distributed than were the gains in Germany over their 1990s business cycle (1991 … States and Great Britain the entire income distribution moved upward in the 1990s. In Germany, as was the case in the United …
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