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Take-up and labour supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits

Krekó, Judit; Prinz, Daniel; Weber, Andrea - 2022

In most disability insurance programs beneficiaries lose some or all of their benefits if they earn above an earnings threshold. While intended to screen out applicants with high remaining working capacity, earnings limits can also distort the labor supply of beneficiaries. We develop a simple...

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Prioritization, risk selection, and illness severity in a mixed health care system

Olivella, Pau; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2022

We study the link between illness severity and the use of public health care services by the privately insured under a public health system. Our theoretical model shows that this relationship will depend on the prioritization established by the public health authorities, the cost of waiting and...

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Intergenerational income persistence: Evidence for the UK

Van der Erve, Laura; Krutikova, Sonya; Macmillan, Lindsey; … - 2022

Intergenerational mobility is a subject of a large literature in social science. It focuses on the association between parents' and children's economic wellbeing and receives significant attention because it speaks to the question of equality of opportunity (Torche, 2015), which many consider an...

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Flexible estimation of random coefficient logit models of differentiated product demand

Kandelhardt, Johannes - 2023

and supply. Precise estimation of parameter estimates is therefore crucial to obtain realistic economic predictions. The … estimates of the structural parameters. With access to micro data, the approach allows for the estimation of highly flexible … patterns without substantially altering the procedure of estimation, making it relevant for practitioners. The BLP estimator is …

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Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition

De Paula, Áureo; Rasul, Imran; Souza, Pedro C. L. - 2023

are all globally identified. While this result is relevant across different estimation strategies, we then describe how … high-dimensional estimation techniques can be used to estimate the interactions model based on the Adaptive Elastic Net …

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Cohort size and labour-market outcomes

Roth, Duncan; Moffat, John D.; Garloff, Alfred - 2018

How does the size of young age cohorts affect the labour-market outcomes of these groups? Employing different microeconometric methods in an empirical analysis at the regional level, Duncan Roth addresses this question in the four essays contained in this book. The analysis deals with the...

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Spatial dependence and heterogeneity in empirical analyses of regional labour market dynamics

Schanne, Norbert - 2015

Are regions within a country really independent islands? Do economic relations and effects really have a homogenous, unique size across an entire country? These two assumptions are often imposed implicitly in empirical economic and social research. In his doctoral thesis, Norbert Schanne...

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Determinanten regionaler Beschäftigungsentwicklung

Fuchs, Michaela - 2010

Eine Betrachtung der regionalen Beschäftigungsentwicklung in Deutschland zeigt erhebliche Differenzen zwischen den regionalen Regionen auf. Der Band bestimmt die Faktoren für diese ausgeprägten regionalen Unterschiede und Entwicklungen. Die Autorin konzentriert sich hierbei auf betriebs- und...

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Interregional wage differentials and the effects of regional mobility on earnings of workers in Germany

Lehmer, Florian - 2009

Diese Dissertation untersucht, welchen Effekt die Bereitschaft von Arbeitnehmern zu räumlicher Mobilität auf die Höhe der Entlohnung hat. Nach einer Einführung über die vorhandene Literatur und den theoretischen Hintergrund der internationalen Mobilitätsforschung vergleicht der Autor die...

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Essays on matching processes and effects of institutional changes on regional and occupational labour markets

Stops, Michael - 2016

The functioning of the labour market and the impact of labour market policies are a long-standing issue in social and political debate. In this respect, labour market research acquires the necessary knowledge and often receives impulses from labour market policy. Conversely, progress in the...

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