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Informal care and long-term labor market outcomes

Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2016

In diesem Papier wird der langfristige Einfluss von häuslicher Pflege auf das Arbeitsangebot von Frauen (bis zu acht …

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Late-career unemployment and cognitive abilities

Freise, Diana; Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2022

We study the effect of unemployment on cognitive abilities among individuals aged between 50 and 65 in Europe. To this end, we exploit plant closures and use flexible event-study estimations together with an experimentally elicited measure of fluid intelligence, namely word recall. We find that,...

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Short- and medium-term effects of informal care provision on Health

Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2013

the regression adjusted matching approach. The results suggest that there is a considerable short-term effect of informal …

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The dynamic and heterogeneous effects of retirement on cognitive decline

Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2021

We study effects of retirement on cognitive abilities (up to ten years after retirement) using data from 21 countries in Continental Europe, England, and the US, and exploiting early-retirement thresholds for identification. For this purpose, combines event-study estimations with the marginal...

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Understanding cognitive decline in older ages : the role of health shocks

Schiele, Valentin; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2021

Individual cognitive functioning declines over time. We seek to understand how adverse physical health shocks in older ages contribute to this development. By use of event-study methods and data from the USA, England and several countries in Continental Europe we find evidence that health shocks...

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Monopsonistic competition, low-wage labour markets, and minimum wages : an empirical analysis

Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2015

This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a dynamic model of monopsonistic competition. The...

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Labour market polarisation, job tasks and monopsony power

Bachmann, Ronald; Demir, Gökay; Frings, Hanna - 2020

Using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony model, we examine to what extent workers performing different job tasks are exposed to different degrees of monopsony power, and whether these differences in monopsony power have changed over the last 30 years. We find that workers...

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Aging and real estate prices in Germany

Breidenbach, Philipp; Jäger, Philipp; Taruttis, Lisa - 2022

robust empirical evidence that population aging depresses real estate prices and rents. Using millions of individual real … have been up to 12% higher, if the population age distribution had been the same as in 2008. We show that population aging … demand for living space and live-cycle dissaving are driving our results. We predict that population aging will continue to …

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The intensive and extensive margin of European labour supply

Frings, Hanna; Schaffner, Sandra - 2011

Das Arbeitsangebot wird grundsätzlich durch zwei Faktoren bestimmt: Die Partizipation am Arbeitsmarkt (extensives … Arbeitsangebot) und die Anzahl der gearbeiteten Stunden der Beschäftigten (intensives Arbeitsangebot). Auf Basis der … gesamte Arbeitsangebot ist. Die Ergebnisse deuten auf signifikante Unterschiede im Arbeitsangebot zwischen den Ländern hin …

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Do optional deductibles reduce the number of doctor visits? : empirical evidence with German dat

Schmitz, Hendrik (contributor) - 2008

Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new...

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