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Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2010
We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private transactions, and can influence consumption allocation. We show...
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Voluntary Public Unemployment Insurance
Parsons, Donald O. - 2015
Denmark has drawn much attention for its active labor market policies, but is almost unique in offering a voluntary public unemployment insurance program requiring a significant premium payment. A safety net program – a less generous, means-tested social assistance plan – completes the...
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Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts and Collective Wage Determination
Goerke, Laszlo - 2021
Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In the present paper the wage and employment consequences of...
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Gift Exchange within a Firm:Evidence from a Field Experiment
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a treeplantingfirm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of treeplanters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attributable topast planting...
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The Worth of Cities in Germany
Gehr, Katja; Pflüger, Michael - 2023
and households and the aggregate economy of Germany. We adopt alternative micro-foundations for agglomeration economies … Germany's labor markets, housing rents, and household travel-to-work data, to estimate the population elasticities of urban … benefits and costs. We are the first to establish elasticities for urban costs for Germany, an estimated elasticity of …
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Who is to Suffer? Quantifying the Impact of Sanctions on German Firms
Görg, Holger; Jacobs, Anna; Meuchelböck, Saskia - 2023
In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour …
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Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth : Evidence from Germany
Artmann, Elisabeth; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; GIUPPONI, … - 2023
We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4% per child born before January 1, 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories,...
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Intergenerational Scars : The Impact of Parental Unemployment on Individual Health Later in Life
Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of...
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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective
D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2011
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...
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The Nonlinear Link between Height and Wages : An Empirical Investigation
Hübler, Olaf - 2011
This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel where five hypotheses are tested. Some explanations of a positive link exist and empirical studies confirm this hypothesis. In contrast to previous investigations which are only...
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