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Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on plant closure as entry into unemployment, and combines difference-in-difference and matching based on entropy balancing ...
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Journal of Health Economics
32 (2013), 3, S. 546-558
| Jan Marcus
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The introduction, abolition and subsequent re-introduction of the minimum wage in the German electrical trade gave rise to series of natural experiments, which are used to study minimum wage effects. We find similar impacts in all three cases on wages, employment and the receipt of public welfare benefits. Average wages are raised by the minimum wage in East Germany, but there is almost no evidence ...
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German Economic Review
14 (2013), 3, S. 316-348
| Bernhard Boockmann, Raimund Krumm, Michael Neumann, Pia Rattenhuber
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Consumers increasingly prefer to bundle their purchases into a single shopping trip, inducing complementaries between initially independent or substitutable goods. Taking this one-stop shopping behavior into account, we show that slotting fees may emerge as a result of a rent-shifting mechanism in a three-party negotiation framework, where a monopolistic retailer negotiates sequentially with two suppliers ...
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Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
22 (2013), 3, S. 468-487
| Stéphane Caprice, Vanessa von Schlippenbach
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Using representative microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we show that the welfare measure choice has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. To assess the sensitivity of welfare-related health inequality measures, we combine a unique set of income and wealth measures with different subjective, cardinalized, and (quasi-)objective health measures. ...
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The European Journal of Health Economics
14 (2013), 3, S. 431-442
| Joachim R. Frick, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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Mit der Einführung des Elterngeldes im Jahr 2007 beabsichtigte die Bundesregierung die Bedingungen für Familien mit jungen Kindern zu verbessern. Die neue familienpolitische Leistung hatte mehrere Ziele, von denen in diesem Beitrag drei zentrale untersucht werden: Zum Ersten sollte für Eltern in der Frühphase der Elternschaft ein Schonraum geschaffen werden. Zum Zweiten ist es ein erklärtes Ziel des ...
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Zeitschrift für Familienforschung
25 (2013), 2, S. 193-211
| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, C. Katharina Spieß, Katharina Wrohlich
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At the height of the economic crisis in mid-2009, the number of Germany's shorttime workers peaked at 1.5 million. Unemployment would otherwise have increased by approximately twice as much as it did. But while short-time work certainly helped to cushion the labour market impact of the crisis in Germany, the authors caution that the country's specific circumstances preclude simple generalizations regarding ...
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International Labour Review
152 (2013), 2, S. 287-305
| Karl Brenke, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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In social science literature there is a wide range of effectiveness studies for early education and care programmes for young children. But these studies usually distinguish the effects of these programmes without considering their costs. This is where efficiency analysis studies in Economics begin. This article presents three fundamental approaches to efficiency analysis before looking in more detail ...
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Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft
16 (2013), 2, S. 333-354
| C. Katharina Spieß
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The large-scale natural gas equilibrium model applied in Egging, 2013 combines long-term market equilibria and investments in infrastructure while accounting for market power by certain suppliers. Such models are widely used to simulate market outcomes given different scenarios of demand and supply development, environmental regulations and investment options in natural gas and other resource markets.. ...
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European Journal of Operational Research
231 (2013), 2, S. 503-506
| Daniel Huppmann
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Linking survey data with administrative records is becoming more common in the social sciences in recent years. Regulatory frameworks require the respondent's consent to this procedure in most cases. Similar to non-response, non-consent may lead to selective samples and could pose a problem when using the combined data for analyses. Thus investigating the selectivity and the determinants of the consent ...
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Survey Research Methods
7 (2013), 2, S. 115-131
| Julie M. Korbmacher, Mathis Schröder
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This study presents results of the validation of an ultra-short survey measure of patience included in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Survey responses predict intertemporal choice behavior in incentive-compatible decisions in a representative sample of the German adult population.
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Economics Letters
120 (2013), 2, S. 142-145
| Thomas Vischer, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Jürgen Schupp, Uwe Sunde, Gert G. Wagner