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The effect of private health insurance on medical care utilization and self-assessed health in Germany
Hullegie, Patrick; Klein, Tobias J. - 2010
In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269868
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Time, money, peers, and parents : some data and theories on teenage behavior
Kooreman, Peter - 2003
In the first part of the paper I analyze a data set on teenage behavior. The data is a sample of high school students in the Netherlands, and contains information on teenage time use, income, expenditures, and subjective measures of well-being and self-esteem. As all students in a sampled class...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261636
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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2003
representative sample of the German population. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent … economic importance of the jack-of-all-trades theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261621
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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent entrepreneur and the regional stratification of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261762
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Unwilling or Unable? : Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access
van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - 2004
We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females? willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Results of a bivariate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261801
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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - 2004
provisions on worker flows. In contrast to the predictions of the theory, our results indicate that there are no statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261862
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What a Difference a Y Makes : Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261884
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Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Rates of Low-Skilled and Elder Workers in West Germany : A Search Equilibrium Approach
Klasen, Stephan; Wolff, Joachim; Launov, Andrey - 2004
explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we … these reforms. We try both nonparametric and fully-parametric estimation methods and identify the cases in which the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261909
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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004
trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261930
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Fly Me to the Moon : The Determinants of Secondary Jobholding in Germany and the UK
Heineck, Guido; Schwarze, Johannes - 2004
This paper analyzes the determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK. Although differing in labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262093