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Exploring the puzzle of human reproduction : register data based evidence from France and Germany
Lipowski, Cäcilia; Wilke, Ralf A.; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2020
analyse and directly compare fertility patterns in two major European economies over a period of 15 years. Strong evidence is … found that opportunity costs play a role in fertility decisions, and for a positive income effect for females with high … earnings. Females in Germany adapt their fertility behaviour more strongly in response to economic incentives than their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222196
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How low business tax rates attract MNE activity : municipality-level evidence from Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria - In: Journal of public economics 96 (2012) 9/10, pp. 698-711
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702494
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Localization of knowledge and entrepreneurs' mobility : the case of Germany's biotechnology industry
Engel, Dirk; Heneric, Oliver - In: Review of regional research : a publication of the … 33 (2013) 2, pp. 173-192
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Poisson analysis of suicide in Japan using municipal data
Sugano, Saki; Matsuki, Yusuke - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 10/12, pp. 723-726
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An econometric model of healthcare demand with nonlinear pricing
Kunz, Johannes; Winkelmann, Rainer - In: Health economics 26 (2017) 6, pp. 691-702
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Green innovations and patenting renewable energy technologies
Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Heshmati, Almas; Lee, Inhee - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 60 (2021) 1, pp. 513-538
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012488956
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Circular migration : counts of exits and years away from the host country
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this behavior by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away from the host country using count data models and panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630299
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Copayments for ambulatory care in Germany : a natural experiment using a difference-in-difference approach
Schreyögg, Jonas; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008
In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632066
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Do optional deductibles reduce the number of doctor visits? : empirical evidence with German data
Schmitz, Hendrik - 2008
Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011633519
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Two-part multiple spell models for health care demand
Silva, João Santos; Windmeijer, Frank - 1999
The demand for certain types of health care services depends on decisions of both the individual and the health care provider. This paper studies the conditions under which it is possible to separately identify the parameters driving the two decision processes using only count data on the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538121