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Income and employment effects of health shocks : a test case for the German welfare state
Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998
of health shocks on employment and economic wellbeing of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of leaving … the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and … those individuals with the highest remaining earnings potential are least affected by the health shock. Welfare state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294530
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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339778
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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340177
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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : a method to test for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior. Then we derive testable conditions for reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487529
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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386819
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Dismissal Protection and Long-term Sickness Absence – First Evidence from Germany
Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2020
This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness ( six weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small establishments from dismissal protection from five to ten workers. Using administrative data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823062
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Dismissal protection and long-term sickness absence : first evidence from Germany
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hiesinger, Karolin - 2020
This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness ( six weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small establishments from dismissal protection from five to ten workers. Using administrative data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267172
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Dismissal protection and long-term sickness absence - first evidence from Germany
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hiesinger, Karolin - 2020
This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness ( six weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small establishments from dismissal protection from five to ten workers. Using administrative data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253039
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Comparing the predictive power of subjective and objective health indicators : changes in handgrip strength and overall satisfaction with life as predictors of mortality
Ambrasat, Jens; Schupp, Jürgen; Wagner, Gert G. - 2011
Self-reported measures of health are generally treated as weak measures of respondents' objective health status. On the … other hand, most surveys use self-reported health to measure health status and to determine the effects of a range of other … socio-economic characteristics of the local environment on individual health. It is therefore of interest to the public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269233
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Does a spouse's health shock influence the partner's risk attitudes?
Kokot, Johanna - 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a spouse's health shock on own risk attitudes. A spouse …'s health shock (i.e., the occurrence of a severe disease) can influence own expectations about the probability of falling ill …, a health shock may act as a wake-up call to enjoy life and may increase risk willingness. Using German Socio Economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700787