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SOEPpapers 353 / 2011
In the modern welfare state, people who cannot make a living usually receive financial assistance from public funds. Accordingly, the so-called social work norm against living off other people is violated, which may be the reason why the unemployed are so unhappy. If so, however, labour market concepts based on the notion of promoting low-paid jobs that are subsidised if necessary with additional payments ...
2011| Adrian Chadi
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SOEPpapers 352 / 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 hazard and public health expenditures in the market for convalescent care. Doubling the daily copayments ...
2011| Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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DIW Discussion Papers 1098 / 2011
Many Colombians are confronted with the ongoing conflict that influences their decision making in everyday life, including their behavior in labor markets. This study focuses on the impact of violent conflict on self-employment, enlarging the usual determinants with a set of conflict variables. In order to estimate the effect of conflict on self-employment, we employ fixed effects estimation. Three ...
2011| Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück, Nina Wald
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SOEPpapers 395 / 2011
Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which additionally allows identifying an upper bound. We illustrate our approach by comparing Germany and the US based ...
2011| Judith Niehues, Andreas Peichl
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SOEPpapers 396 / 2011
How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the public pension system. We calculate that, ...
2011| Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
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DIW Economic Bulletin 3 / 2011
The enlargement of the EU in 2004 has had numerous effects- and the German labor market has not been left untouched. Among migrant laborers coming to Germany, self-employment has been the most frequent form of labor market participation to date. Despite barriers to immigration and the need to acquire work permits, dependent employment among migrants from 2004 accession countries has also increased. ...
2011| Karl Brenke
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SOEPpapers 393 / 2011
This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the community lose their job and remain unemployed ...
2011| Daniel Oesch, Oliver Lipps
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SOEPpapers 394 / 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job satisfaction focusing in particular on gender differences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and firm characteristics, we find a difference between males and females in the correlation of training with job satisfaction which is positive for males but insignificant ...
2011| Claudia Burgard, Katja Görlitz
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Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 2 / 2011
Wegen der zunehmenden Lebenszeit und der Schrumpfung der Arbeitsbevolkerung steigt kunftig der Bedarf fur Altere im Arbeitsmarkt. Eine starkere Nutzung des Humankapitals der Alteren wird auch in Deutschland moglich sein. Dafur spricht nicht nur, dass die Erwerbsquoten im internationalen Vergleich noch gering sind. Wichtig ist vielmehr, dass staatliche Anreize zur Fruhverrentung weitgehend abgestellt ...
2011| Karl Brenke, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 2 / 2011
Um die Tragfahigkeit der staatlichen Rentensysteme angesichts der Zunahme der Lebenserwartung langfristig sicherzustellen, haben neben Deutschland auch andere OECD-Staaten in der Vergangenheit das gesetzliche Rentenalter erhoht. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt der vorliegende Beitrag die Entwicklung des Rentenalters in den Mitgliedsstaaten der OECD im Zeitraum von 1950-2050 dar. Weiterhin wird neben ...
2011| Stefan Moog, Christoph Müller