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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130457
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Does Institutional Diversity Account for Pay Rules in Germany and Belgium?
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III …) higher (lower) impact of educational credentials (work-post tenure) on earnings in Germany. We provide survey-based empirical … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same "variety of capitalism", we provide evidence that small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119545
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Wages as Risk Compensation in Germany
Grund, Christian - 2021
evidence for compensating wage differentials in Germany so far. Estimating wage regressions with data of the German Socio … differentials in Germany is found even though other effects may partly weaken the existing wage premiums due to risks at work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321215
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Worker Stress and Performance Pay : German Survey Evidence
Baktash, Mehrzad; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2022
While performance pay can benefit firms and workers by increasing productivity and wages, it has also been associated with a deterioration of worker health. The transmission mechanisms for this deterioration remain in doubt. We examine the hypothesis that increased stress is one transmission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030841
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113068
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Defaults and Donations : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Altmann, Steffen - 2014
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042970
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One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior
Anger, Silke - 2010
, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in …-in-differences estimates show that the introduction of smoke-free legislation in Germany did not change average smoking behavior within the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144930
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The Effect of Private Health Insurance on Medical Care Utilization and Self-Assessed Health in Germany
Hullegie, Patrick - 2010
In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141718
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The Elasticity of Taxable Income : A Meta-Regression Analysis
Neisser, Carina - 2018
The elasticities of taxable and broad income are key parameters in tax policy analysis. To examine the large variation in estimates found in the literature, I conduct a comprehensive meta-regression analysis using information from 51 studies containing 1,448 estimates. Heterogeneity in reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906510
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Workplace Democracy in the Lab
Mellizo, Philip - 2011
While intuition suggests that empowering workers to have some say in the control of the firm is likely to have beneficial incentive effects, empirical evidence of such an effect is hard to come by because of numerous confounding factors in the naturally occurring data. We report evidence from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130466