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Co-Pay and Feel Okay : Evidence of Illusory Health Gains from a Health Insurance Reform
Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2009
of Germany in 2004 as a source of exogenous variation. Among others, the reform introduced a co-payment for ambulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155296
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Did Customers Benefit from the Reorganisation of Customer Management in German Employment Agencies?
Ehlert, Christoph Richard - 2014
As a response to an overall high and persistent unemployment rate during the 1990s and the beginning of the new millennium, the German Federal Employment Agency underwent several reforms. One of the most important reforms, the reform of the organisational structure of the Federal Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146779
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Social Jealousy and Stigma - Negative Externalities of Social Assistance Payments in Germany
de New (née Kassenboehmer), Sonja C.; Haisken-DeNew, … - 2014
satisfaction in Germany using the SOEP 1995-2004. We find strong evidence that individuals in Germany are negatively influenced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202517
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Sectoral Transformation, Turbulence, and Labor Market Dynamics in Germany
Bachmann, Ronald - 2007
. This is especially true in Germany, where industrial employment has declined by more than 30% and service sector employment …
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You're Fired! The Causal Negative Effect of Unemployment on Life Satisfaction
de New (née Kassenboehmer), Sonja C.; Haisken-DeNew, … - 2008
This paper examines the impact of unemployment on life satisfaction for Germany 1984-2006, using a sample of men and … explicitly identifies truly exogenous unemployment entries starting from 1991. We find that for women in East and West Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214107
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Labor Market Effects of Immigration - Evidence from Neighborhood Data
Sinning, Mathias - 2011
This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125534
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A Level Playing Field – An Optimal Weighting Scheme of Dismissal Protection Characteristics
Kind, Michael - 2013
In the case of collective redundancies, employers are forced to regard certain characteristics when deciding who is going to be dismissed. This paper develops a procedure to derive an empirical based weighting scheme between the characteristics relevant for this selection (age, disability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073253
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Labor Force Status Dynamics in the German Labor Market - Individual Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity
Kluve, Jochen - 2009
. Heterogeneity in unemployment and transition rates diff er between East and West Germany, as well as between the sexes. In East … Germany, all demographic cells are almost entirely detached from the cycle. Women are less influenced by the cycle in their re …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155345
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Bridge Unemployment in Germany : Response in Labour Supply to an Increased Early Retirement Age
Giesecke, Matthias - 2013
Germany. As consequence of this policy reform, the time to retirement is increased from the perspective of recently unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083666
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Heterogeneity in the Cyclical Sensitivity of Job-to-Job Flows
Schaffner, Sandra - 2009
evidence exists for Germany. Kluve, Schaffner, and Schmidt (2009) emphasize the heterogeneity of cyclical influences for … countercyclical. The empirical framework employed here allows demographic groups to vary in their cyclical sensitivity. In Germany …
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