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Immigration in a High Unemployment Economy: The Recent Danish Experience
Pedersen, Peder J. - 2000
The purpose in this paper is to survey the course of immigration into Denmark and research and studies related to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262374
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Fiscal effects of minimum wages: an analysis for Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; … - 2008
Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained from a structural labor demand model, the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268938
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Fiscal Effects of Minimum Wages: An Analysis for Germany
Bauer, Thomas; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained from a structural labor demand model, the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822471
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Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success: Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Greve, Jane; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal - 2015
Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345387
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Immigrant child poverty in Scandinavia: a panel data study
Galloway, Taryn Ann; Gustafsson, Björn; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2009
Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … Norway have an immigrant origin, and that corresponding proportion is as high as about a half in Denmark as well as in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269314
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Legal Drinking, Injury and Harm: Evidence from the Introduction and Modifications of Age Limits in Denmark
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Nilsson, Anton - 2020
, most countries have implemented policies such as minimum legal drinking ages (MLDAs). Denmark, a country with an … the MLDA in Denmark to estimate effects on all classes of injuries, as well as alcohol-related outcomes such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270079
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Older Immigrants' New Poverty Risk in Scandinavian Welfare States?
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Jakobsen, Vibeke; Mac Innes, … - 2021
, Yugoslavia and Turkey living in Denmark or Sweden in 2010. Income data on all such persons aged 65 to 82 living in the two … destination countries are analysed. In both Denmark and Sweden, we report much higher poverty rates among the immigrants studied … Yugoslavia or Turkey who had immigrated to Denmark during the '70s and '80s were more likely to be in poverty in 2010 that their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882458
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Public Health Policy at Scale: Impact of a Government-Sponsored Information Campaign on Infant Mortality in Denmark
Altindag, Onur; Greve, Jane; Tekin, Erdal - 2022
), using population data from Denmark in a regression discontinuity research design. The information campaign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351937
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Reminder Design and Childhood Vaccination Coverage
Hirani, Jonas Cuzulan; Wüst, Miriam - 2023
A major policy concern across public vaccination programs is non-compliance. Exploiting Danish population data and three national reforms in regression discontinuity designs, we document the effects of reminders for childhood vaccination coverage. Retrospective reminders are primarily effective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296621
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Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Gunnsteinsson, … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296859