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Many studies have investigated flood risk and insurance coverage in the 100-year flood zone, but much less is known … about the periphery of the flood zone. We present a new approach to estimate flood risk and insurance take-up in the … properties located within 250 meters of the flood zone. We also document substantial voluntary insurance take-up in this area …
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Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …
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Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …
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This paper compares the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Germany and the UK using the German Socio … unemployment rate as the cyclical measure, we find real wages of stayers in the private sector in West Germany - but not East … Germany - to be procyclical, and quite sensitive to unemployment, comparable to the US and the UK. We find cyclicality in the …
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283967
The consequences of business cycle contingencies in unemployment insurance systems are considered in a search …-matching model allowing for shifts between “good” and “bad” states of nature. We show that not only is there an insurance argument …
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to assess the impact of service-linked severance benefits on age-specific employment levels. The model permits design of …
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What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and the family attenuate these various factors in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this...
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) investment/savings and (c) insurance/assurance Using FinScope dataset from South Africa over the period 2003 to 2009,ordered …
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