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In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice

Schmitz, Hendrik - 2012

This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition...

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The Accident Externality from Trucking

Muehlenbachs, Lucija A. - 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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Surprising Selection Effects in the UK Car Insurance Market

Cannon, E. S. - 2014

We document a large and persistent anomaly in the UK car insurance market over the period 2012-13: insurance companies charged a higher premium for third-party (liability) insurance than comprehensive insurance (which includes third-party). Furthermore, some companies charged higher prices for...

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When the Baby Cries at Night : Inelastic Buyers in Non-Competitive Markets

Calzolari, Giacomo - 2014

We investigate empirically how sellers react to changes in the population of their consumers, identifying the effects of demand composition and demand size with limited information on costs. We show how pharmacists in Italy selectively increase the price of some products when they observe in...

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The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands : Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany …, while for Germany we find a negative relation with tenured employment. The contrasting results on tenured employment may be … explained partly by differences in immigration rules. In Germany economic self-reliance is more important than in the …

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Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment : An Ex-Ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany

Schmitz, Hendrik; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre …

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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market : Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …

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The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment : An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2008

individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of …

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Proxying Economic Activity with Daytime Satellite Imagery : Filling Data Gaps Across Time and Space

Lehnert, Patrick; Niederberger, Michael; … - 2022

Germany, where East German data on economic activity are unavailable for detailed regional levels and historical time series …

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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes Toward Newcomers

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2022

How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of...

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