,678 individuals in Germany, 1994 - 2012, for identifying and valuing the local externalities from solar, wind and biomass plants in …

We investigate the effect of the physical presence of wind turbines on residential well-being in Germany, using panel …

light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare … supply ; Cognitive skills ; Family Policy ; Germany …

childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public daycare. After the … reform, children are 8 percentage points less likely to attend public daycare which implies a compensated price elasticity of …

literature by estimating both switch-on and switch-off effects, because the reform was repealed two years later. We find a two … terms) at higher quantiles, meaning that the reform predominantly reduced long durations of absence. In terms of health, the … reform reduced the average number of days spent in hospital by almost half a day, but we cannot find robust evidence for …

In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that … respond to the sick pay reform. We show that union members may have stronger incentives to be absent and to react to the cut …

German family policy underwent a reform in 2007, when the new instrument of "Elterngeld" replaced the previous … comparing behavior before and after the reform. We separately consider women of high and low incomes, which were treated …

this conflict. In 2007, Germany put into effect a new parental leave benefit (Elterngeld). The related reform increased the … number of parents eligible for benefits and changed the amount and duration of the benefits. The reform sought to decrease … the old system. The current paper investigates whether this reform of parental leave impacted breastfeeding initiation and …

Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … pronounced for male unemployed in west Germany. The effect is driven by income and income satisfaction, but not by the …

system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre-reform …We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation … unemployment compensation on the duration of unemployment. Simulation results show that the recent labour market reform is unlikely …