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Subjective Health Assessments and Active LaborMarket Participation of Older Men: Evidence froma Semiparametric Binary Choice Model withNonadditive Correlated Individual-Specific Ef...
Maurer, Jürgen; Klein, Roger; Vella, Francis - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We use panel data from the US Health and Retirement Study 1992-2002 to estimate theeffect of self-assessed health … limitations on active labor market participation of men aroundretirement age. Self-assessments of health and functioning typically … introduce anendogeneity bias when studying the effects of health on labor market participation. Thisresults from justification …
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The Influence of the Business Cycle on Mortality
Reichmuth, Wolfgang H.; Sarferaz, Samad - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008
We analyze the impact of short-run economic fluctuations on age-specific mortality usingBayesian time series econometrics and contribute to the debate on the procyclicality ofmortality. For the first time, we examine the differing consequences of economic changesfor all individual age classes....
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Public and Private Expenditures on Health in a GrowthModel
Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Qiao, Xue - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005
the model, an agent mayincrease the length of her old age by incurring investments in her own health fundedfrom her wage … income. Such private health investments are more “productive” ifaccompanied by complementary tax-financed public health …
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Binge Drinking and Labor Market Success: ALongitudinal Study on Young People
Huffman, Wallace E.; Keng, Shao-Hsun - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005
This paper presents a twoequationmodel of joint outcomes on an individual’sdecision to binge drink and on his/her annual labor market earnings. The primary data source isthe 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), 19791994.We showthat binge drinking behavior is quite...
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Fatal Fluctuations?Cyclicality in Infant Mortality in India
Bhalotra, Sonia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India andinvestigates likely mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality atmost ages is pro-cyclical but similar analyses for poorer countries are scarce, and bothincome risk and mortality...
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Income Volatility and Health
Halliday, Timothy J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years ofdata from the Panel Study of …
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Auf der Suche nach der nationalenInnovationskultur Deutschlands -die Etablierung der Verfahrenstechnik in der BRD/DDR seit 1950
Pieper, Christine; Handel, Kai Christian - Technische Universität <Freiberg> / Fachbereich … - 2003
Die Rolle der Hochschulen im Innovationssystem sowohl der BRD als auch der DDR hat sich in den letzten fünfzig Jahren zum Teil dramatisch geändert. Der Veränderungsprozess in der Bundesrepublik lässt sich grob in drei Phasen einteilen, die sich zwar überlappen, dennoch im wesentlichen eine...
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Global Aging and Fiscal Policy with InternationalLabor Mobility: A Political Economy Perspective
Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and apolitically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions.Migrant workers change the political structure composed of young and elderly voters in bothlabor-receiving and...
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Die Interne Rendite derGesetzlichen Pflegeversicherung
Häcker, Jasmin; Raffelhüschen, Bernd - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft <Freiburg, Breisgau> - 2005
Die Einführung eines jeden auf dem Umlageverfahren basierenden Systems verursacht– bei unterstellter Alterung der Bevölkerung – eine intergenerative Umverteilungzu Gunsten der ersten Generationen und zu Lasten üungerer und nachwachsenderGenerationen. Am Beispiel der Einf¨uhrung der...
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Internal Rates of Return of the German StatutoryLong-Term Care Insurance
Häcker, Jasmin; Raffelhüschen, Bernd - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft <Freiburg, Breisgau> - 2005
Presuming an ageing population, every introduction of a pay-as-you-go schemecauses intergenerational redistribution in favor of the first generations and to theburden of young and future generations. Using the concept of internal rates ofreturn we want to examine the extent to which the first...
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