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Unskilled labor and wage determination: An empirical investigation for Germany

This article contributes to the ongoing debate on native wage impacts of immigration. I propose a mobile-fixed factor distinction as a framework in which to think about the differential impact of immigration on various labor market groups. Skilled workers are treated as a fixed factor of production since the strong reliance on skill certification in Germany inhibits mobility and shelters from competition. ...

Econometric Analysis of Count Data. Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition

How young workers get their training - A survey of Germany versus the United States

The recent economic literature on the incidence of various forms of post-secondary on-the-job and off-the-job training in Germany and the United States, as well as on the effects of training on wages, inequality, and labor mobility is surveyed. Young workers in Germany receive substantially more company-based (apprenticeship) training than United States workers. In the United States, high turnover ...

Wages, firm size and absenteeism

Zur korrekten Interpretation der Ergebnisse einer log-linearen Regression bei Heteroskadastie. Eine methodische Untersuchung mit einer Anwendung auf die relativen Löhne von Ausländern

Econometric Analysis of Count Data. 4th Edition

How Did the German Health Care Reform of 1997 Change the Distribution of the Demand of Health Services

Re-evaluating an Evaluation Study: The Case of the German Health Care Reform of 1997

Co-payments for prescription drugs and the demand for doctor visits - Evidence from a natural experiment

The German health care reform of 1997 provides a natural experiment for evaluating the price sensitivity of demand for physicians' services. As a part of the reform, co-payments for prescription drugs were increased step up to 200%. However, certain groups of people were exempted from the increase, providing a natural control group against which the changed demand for physicians' services ...

Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis

This paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure and data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1995–1999. A number of modified count data models allow us to estimate the effect of the reform in different parts of the distribution. The overall effect of the reform was a 10% reduction in the number of doctor visits. ...