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Crowding out informal care? : evidence from a social experiment in Germany

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); … - 2008

This paper evaluates the effects of a professionally assisted consumer-directed program (Personal Budgets) compared to the standard home care programs of the German long-term care insurance. The evaluation makes use of a long-run social experiment at seven different sites with a random...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793884

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941704

Noncognitive skills in economics : models, measurement, and empirical evidence

Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009

There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of these skills regarding three main aspects of economic analysis: measurement, theoretical modeling, and empirical estimates. Based on the relevant literature from different...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903035

Variation of learning intensity in late adolescence and the impact on noncognitive skills

Büttner, Bettina; Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2011

Despite the interdependence between cognitive and noncognitive skills, empirical studies have shown a longer period of acquisition in life-time for the latter besides relevance for educational and labor market success. Analyzing returns of investments during different periods of life is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901881

Noncognitive skills in economics : models, measurement, and empirical evidence

Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2011 - Revised version: November 15, 2011

There is an increasing economic literature considering personality traits as a source of individual differences in labor market productivity and other outcomes. This paper provides an overview on the role of these skills regarding three main aspects: measurement, development over the life...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424169

The KfW/ZEW start-up panel : design and research potential

Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - 2009

Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the … yearly panel waves computer-aided telephone interviews (CATI) are conducted with about 6,000 start-up firms from almost all … industries. The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel will for the first time enable profound analyses of the temporal development of newly …

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Exports and profitability : first evidence for German manufacturing firms

Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008

Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the enterprise level for Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It documents that the positive profitability differential of...

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The export-growth relationship estimating a dose-response function

Fryges, Helmut (contributor) - 2006

The relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the economic literature. However, most studies from the field of economics only distinguish between exporting and non-exporting companies, using the firms’ export status as a...

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Exports and productivity growth : first evidence from a continuous treatment approach

Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007

. Using the GPS method and a large panel data set for German manufacturing firms, we estimate the relationship between a firm …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003480022

Should welfare administration be centralized or decentralized? : Evidence from a policy experiment

Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas; … - 2010

The 2005 reform of the German welfare system introduced two competing organizational models for welfare administration. In most districts, a centralized organization was established where local welfare agencies are bound to central directives. At the same time, 69 districts were allowed to opt...

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