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Long-Term Absenteeism and Moral Hazard: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2009
Sick leave payments represent a significant portion of public health expenditures and labor costs. Reductions in replacement levels are a commonly used instrument to tackle moral hazard and to increase the efficiency of the health insurance market. In Germany's Statutory Health Insurance (SHI)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600816
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Long-Term Absenteeism and Moral Hazard: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
Sick leave payments represent a significant portion of public health expenditures and labor costs. Reductions in replacement levels are a commonly used instrument to tackle moral hazard and to increase the efficiency of the health insurance market. In Germany's Statutory Health Insurance (SHI)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017389
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Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-Being and Job Insecurity
Clark, Andrew; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2008
The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the wellbeing of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600797
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Quantifizierung lokaler externer Effekte fossiler Kraftwerke: Eine empirische Analyse anhand von Lebenszufriedenheitsdaten
Lütkehaus, Hauke - 2019
. In this context local externalities of various types of fossil fuel-fired power plants are investigated and quantified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140454
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Does education affect attitudes towards immigration? Evidence from Germany
Margaryan, Shushanik; Paul, Annemarie; Siedler, Thomas - 2018
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting the staggered implementation of a compulsory schooling reform in West Germany, this article finds that an additional year of schooling lowers the probability of being very concerned about immigration to Germany by around six...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960822
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Hohe Impfbereitschaft gegen Covid-19 in Deutschland, Impfpflicht bleibt kontrovers
Graeber, Daniel; Schmidt-Petri, Christoph; Schröder, … - 2020
Dieser Bericht beschreibt die Impfbereitschaft und Akzeptanz einer Impfpflicht gegen Covid-19 in Juni und Juli 2020 in Deutschland auf Basis einer Teilstichprobe (SOEP-CoV) des Sozioökonomischen Panels, die zum Themenkomplex Covid-19 befragt wurde. SOEP-CoV beinhaltete auch Fragen zur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294312
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Do wind turbines have adverse health impacts?
Krekel, Christian; Rode, Johannes; Roth, Alexander - 2023
While wind power is considered key in the transition towards net zero, there are concerns about adverse health impacts on nearby residents. Based on precise geographical coordinates, we link a representative longitudinal household panel to all wind turbines in Germany and exploit their staggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014426905
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Sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind? The effect of wind turbines on residential well-being
Krekel, Christian; Zerrahn, Alexander - 2015
externalities can be detected. Moreover, the effect is transitory, vanishing after five years at the latest. As wind turbines are … addressed at avoiding negative externalities of local pollutant and global greenhouse gas emissions, they fulfil an important … externalities with the avoided externalities from emissions, the positive impact of wind turbines is by several magnitudes higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531592
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Quantifying the externalities of renewable energy plants using wellbeing data: The case of biogas
Krekel, Christian; Rechlitz, Julia; Rode, Johannes; … - 2021
externalities of renewable energy plants using well-being data. We focus on the example of biogas, one of the most frequently … negative externalities: impacts are moderate in size and spatially confined to a radius of 2, 000 metres around plants. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427326
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Boon or Bane?: Others' Unemployment, Well-Being and Job Insecurity
Clark, Andrew; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the wellbeing of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017496