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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)...

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Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

Zimmermann, Laura; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Constant, Amelie F. - 2006

This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a twodimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely...

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Langzeitkranke verlieren durch Kürzung des Krankengeldes fünf Milliarden Euro

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 20, pp. 326-332

Am 1. Januar 1997 trat eine Krankengeldkürzung von 80 auf 70 Prozent des Bruttoeinkommens in Kraft. Ab der siebten Woche erhalten gesetzlich Versicherte Krankengeld, sie gelten als langzeitkrank. Berechnungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zeigen, dass durch diese Maßnahme...

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Krebspatienten feiern nicht krank: Sechs Fragen an Nicolas Ziebarth

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Zummack, Karsten - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 20, pp. 327

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Health and well-being in the crisis

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...

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Einordnung des deutlichen Anstiegs der krankheitsbedingten Fehlzeiten seit 2022

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Pichler, Stefan - 2024

Datenquellen stark angestiegen. Es gilt festzuhalten, dass es in Deutschland keine einheitliche und repräsentative Datenbasis gibt … beschränkt erfassen. Zudem existiert keine international vergleichbare Datenbasis. Zusätzlich gilt, dass Deutschland eine der … impliziert, dass Deutschland pro Arbeitnehmer und Jahr vermutlich eine der höchsten Fehlzeiten weltweit aufzuweisen hat - und …

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Overtime work and overtime compensation in Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

Sharing the available stock of work more fairly is a popular concern in the public policy debate. One policy proposal is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is...

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Is job stability declining in Germany? : evidence from count data models

Winkelmann, Rainer - 1998

The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined...

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Immigrant labor and workplace safety

Bauer, Thomas K.; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - 1998

Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyzes the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869, and the...

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Is job stability declining in Germany? : Evidence from count data models

Winkelmann, Rainer; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

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