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Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011
Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600994
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Do I really need to go to rehab? I'd say no, no, no.: estimating price elasticities of convalescent care programs
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2009
This study is the first to estimate the price elasticities of demand for both medical rehabilitation programs and … symptoms of poor health and are preventive in character, medical rehabilitation implies recovering from a specific illness or … decrease in total demand of about 20 percent. We estimate the price elasticity for rehabilitation programs that aim at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271114
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Assessing the effectiveness of health care cost containment measures
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011
Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286006
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Searching for rehabilitation in nonparametric regression models with exogenous treatment assignment
Henderson, Daniel J.; Maasoumi, Esfandiar - 2012
This paper offers some new directions in the analysis of nonparamertric models with exogenous treatment assignment. The nonparametric approach opens the door to the examination of potentially different distributed outcomes. When combined with cross-validation, it also identifies potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289871
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Bauwirtschaft: Konjunkturprogramme zeigen Wirkung
Gornig, Martin; Weber, Sebastian - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 47, pp. 812-820
Wohnungsbau ist die Rezession dank der stabilen Arbeitsmarkt- und Reallohnentwicklung und spezieller Förderprogramme nicht …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602092
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Abwärtsspirale am Bau durchbrochen: Acht Fragen an Martin Gornig
Gornig, Martin; Wittenberg, Erich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 47, pp. 813
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Migration and Macroeconomic Performance in New Zealand: Theory and Evidence
Fry, Julie - 2014
New Zealand immigration policy settings are based on the assumption that the macroeconomic impacts of immigration may be significantly positive, with at worst small negative effects. However, both large positive and large negative effects are possible. Reviewing the literature, the balance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115677
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Keeping the Bubble Alive! The Effects of Urban Renewal and Demolition Subsidies in the East German Housing Market
Weiß, Dominik - 2009
German urban renewal programs are favoring the cities in the Eastern part since the reunification in 1990. This was accompanied additionally by attractive tax incentives, designed as an accelerated declining balance method of depreciation for housing investments during the late 1990s. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267044
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Am Puls des deutschen Wohnimmobilienmarktes: Vom Ölpreisschock bis zur Flüchtlingskrise
Hiller, Norbert; Gröbel, Sören - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 96 (2016) 5, pp. 333-339
In seiner jüngeren Geschichte war Deutschland mit vielen tiefgreifenden ökonomischen Krisen konfrontiert. Diese wirkten sich vollkommen unterschiedlich auf den Wohnimmobilienmarkt aus. Einige Krisen machten sich auf nationaler, andere hingegen lediglich auf regionaler Ebene bemerkbar. Manche...
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Differential effects of Swedish active labour market programmes for unemployed adults during the 1990s
Sianesi, Barbara - 2001
The paper evaluates the differential performance of the six main types of Swedish programmes that were available to adult unemployed workers en Titled to unemployment benefits in the 1990s: labour market training, workplace introduction, work experience placement, relief work, trainee...
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