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Reforming Home Care Provision in Germany: Evidence from a Social Experiment

Arntz, Melanie; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2008

In a long-run social experiment, personal budgets have been tested as an alternative to the home care programs of the German long-term care insurance (LTCI). Due to extending the coverage beyond LTCI approved services and agencies, personal budgets may improve care outcomes compared to the...

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The role early-life conditions in the cognitive decline due to adverse events later in life

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Deeg, Dorly J. H.; Lindeboom, … - 2010

Serious life events, such as the loss or the onset of a chronic condition may influence cognitive functioning. We examine whether the cognitive impact of such events is stronger if conditions very early in life were adverse, using Dutch lnogitudinal data of older persons. We exploit exogenous...

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Employment Adjustments on the Internal and External Labour Market: An Empirical Study with Personnel Records of a German Company

Gerlach, Knut; Hübler, Olaf - 2008

Firms are affected by the product demand. This leads to employment adjustments. In the literature we find only very few contributions investigating the issue whether internal adjustments are linked and which relationships exist with external adjustments. Are they of a complementary or...

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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform

Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2008

We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment Assistance with an income maintenance program and stronger means testing. We model the tax-benefit system and use the Socio-Economic Panel. We estimate a discrete labour supply...

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The social long-term care insurance in Germany: origin, situation, threats, and perspectives

Heinicke, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2010

This paper describes the Social Long-Term Care Insurance (SLTCI) in Germany. Based on a short review of the history of … long-term care organization and the preceding laws in Germany, the implementation of the SLTCI as a self-standing pillar … within the system of social insurances in Germany and its set-up with regard to eligibility criteria, service provision and …

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Being born under adverse economic conditions leads to a higher cardiovascular mortality rate in life: Evidence based on inidviduals born at different stages of the business cycle

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; … - 2008

We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual data records from the Danish Twin Registry covering births...

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Adjusting Measures of Economic Output for Health: Is the Business Cycle Countercyclical?

Egan, Mark L.; Mulligan, Casey B.; Philipson, Tomas J. - 2013

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Indian Economic Outlook 2008-09 and 2009-10

Kumar, Rajiv - 2009

This paper provides an outlook for the Indian economy in the light of the extraordinary global financial crisis, that started in the US, but which has now transformed into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The Indian economy was slowing down even before the onset of global...

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Ökonomische Wirkungen der Handwerksnovelle 2004: Ergebnisse aus einem quasinatürlichen Experiment

Koch, Andreas; Nielen, Sebastian - 2016

Die Reform der Handwerksordnung des Jahres 2004 brachte insbesondere durch die Abschaffung der Meisterpflicht für mehr als die Hälfte der Gewerbezweige des Handwerks eine umfassende Liberalisierung der Zugangsbedingungen. Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert unter Verwendung von Daten des...

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Reforming Social Welfare as We Know It? A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - 2003

-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … typically assumed by contributors to recent discussions on the potential labour market effects of welfare reforms in Germany …

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