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Child benefit reform and labor market participation

Tamm, Marcus - 2009

This paper examines the impact of a change in the German child benefit system in 1996, which led to a large increase in lump sum transfers to families with children. We analyze the impact on the labor force participation of family members. Comparing behavioral changes of adults with children...

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The impact of a large parental leave benefit reform on the timing of birth around the day of Implementation

Tamm, Marcus - 2009

The introduction of the German parental leave benefit (Elterngeld) applied to all children born on January 1st, 2007 or later. The new Elterngeld considerably changed the amount of transfers to families during the first two years postpartum. We show that the incentives created by using a cut-off...

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Current account balances and structural adjustment in the euro area

Zemanek, Holger; Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther - 2010

In the past decade, a set of euro area countries has accumulated large current account deficits. After a brief relaxation of the euro area internal imbalances in the wake of the financial crisis, it appears as if this pattern arises anew when times normalize again and Germany still sticks to...

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Inattentive voters and welfare-state persistence

Bredemeier, Christian - 2010

einer Sozialversicherung entscheiden. In diesem Modell entsteht eine Persistenz des Wohlfahrtsstaats durch die Anreizeffekte … der Sozialversicherung auf die Aufmerksamkeit. Der Wohlfahrtsstaat verdrängt private Vorsorge und mit ihr die …

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Moral hazard in a mutual health-insurance system : German Knappschaften, 1867-1914

Guinnane, Timothy; Streb, Jochen - 2010

The Knappschaft underlies Bismarck's sickness and accident insurance legislation (1883 and 1884), which in turn forms the basis of the German social-insurance system today and, indirectly, many social-insurance systems around the world. The Knappschaften were formed in the medieval period to...

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The hazard of merger by absorption : why some Knappschaften Merged and others did not; 1861-1920

Jopp, Tobias Alexander - 2011

Funktion einer Sozialversicherung und durchliefen im den folgenden Dekaden einen insbesondere durch Fusionen und Schließungen …

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The introduction of Bismarck's social security system and its effects on marriage and fertility in Prussia

Guinnane, Timothy; Streb, Jochen - 2021

Sozialversicherung in Deutschland im Zeitraum von 1881 bis 1910. Bismarcks Sozialversicherungssystem hatte drei Säulen …Ökonomen argumentieren seit langem, dass die Einführung einer Sozialversicherung die Geburtenrate senkt. Die Hypothese … Säulen der Sozialversicherung ausgesetzt waren, hoben sich die beiden Effekte gegenseitig auf und der Gesamteffekt auf die …

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Germany's solar cell promotion : dark clouds on the horizon

Frondel, Manuel (contributor); Ritter, Nolan (contributor); … - 2008

This article demonstrates that the large feed-in tariffs currently guaranteed for solar electricity in Germany constitute a subsidization regime that, if extended to 2020, threatens to reach a level comparable to that of German hard coal production, a notoriously outstanding example of misguided...

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Does product market competition decrease employers' training investments? : evidence from German establishment panel data

Görlitz, Katja (contributor); Stiebale, Joel (contributor) - 2008

Using a large panel data set of German manufacturing establishments, this paper investigates the impact of competition on training incidence as well as on the number of trained workers. According to theory, one would expect a negative relationship between product market competition and firms'...

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Less social health insurance - more private supplementary insurance? : empirical evidence from Germany

Augurzky, Boris (contributor); Tauchmann, Harald (contributor) - 2008

This paper uses individual level data to analyze the effect of changes in the compulsory benefit package of the German statutory health insurance scheme on the demand for private supplementary insurance. In particular, we aim at measuring the effect of excluding dentures from the benefit package...

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