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The Accident Externality from Trucking
Muehlenbachs, Lucija - 2017
How much risk does a heavy truck impose on highway safety? To answer this question, we look at the rapid influx of trucks during the shale gas boom in Pennsylvania. Using quasi-experimental variation in truck traffic, we isolate the effect of adding a truck to the road. We find an additional...
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Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth and Entrepreneurship : Theory and Evidence from the Introduction of a 'Fresh Start'
Fossen, Frank M. - 2011
tests the hypotheses derived by exploiting the introduction of a "fresh start" policy in Germany in 1999 as a natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130785
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The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
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Financing Social Security : Simulating Different Welfare State Systems for Germany
Dieckhoener, Caroline - 2009
In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and … especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a … Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system increases inequality and poverty, as well as labour supply incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160308
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Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions : An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions to Employment?
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2009
Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably across the 439 welfare agencies. Based on combined administrative and survey data, these differences...
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A Structural Approach to Estimating the Effect of Taxation on the Labor Market Dynamics of Older Workers
Haan, Peter - 2009
of the tax and transfer system on work incentives. The structural parameter estimates are used to evaluate the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764073
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The Impact of Income Taxation on the Ratio Between Reservation and Market Wages and the Incentives for Labour Supply
Caliendo, Marco; Gambaro, Ludovica; Haan, Peter - 2021
income taxation on the ratio between reservation and net market wages. Based on micro data for Germany (SOEP) we show that … joint income taxation in Germany which discriminates by marital status, has a strong and highly significant impact on the … reservation/market wage ratio. Relative to single filers, this leads to strong negative labour supply incentives for secondary …
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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Brown, Alessio J.G; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058461
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Imposed Benefit Sanctions and the Unemployment-to-Employment Transition : The German Experience
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2021
positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324819
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Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption
Anderson, D. Mark - 2011
To date, 16 states have passed medical marijuana laws, yet very little is known about their effects. Using state-level data, we examine the relationship between medical marijuana laws and a variety of outcomes. Legalization of medical marijuana is associated with increased use of marijuana among...
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