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Why do governments recognize rights? In this article, we rely on natural experiments and an innovative matching technique to identify a new causal mechanism of policy feedback, which we refer to as the “recognition” effect. We rely on the “hard case” of health care to demonstrate that attitudes towards the health system change in response to government policy change and, indeed, even to rights-based ...
In:
Social Policy & Administration
52 (2018), 4, 880-894
| Diana Burlacu, Ellen M. Immergut, Maria Oskarson, Björn Rönnerstrand
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The legal regulations require the minimum wage in Germany to be adjusted biennially which gives rise to a policy discontinuity. From the perspective of rational expectations models, such policy features render standard local approximation techniques infeasible. The article presents a stylized model in which negotiated wages and corporate profits are the outcome of an optimization problem, while changes ...
In:
Applied Economics Letters
24 (2017), 15, 1121-1126
| Dirk Bursian
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Syracuse:
Syracuse University, Maxwell School,
2004,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 394)
| Gary Burtless
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Luxembourg:
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),
2008,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 489)
| Gary Burtless, Janet C. Gornick, Timothy M. Smeeding
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In:
Review of Income and Wealth
53 (2007), 3, 460-483
| Peter Burton, Shelley Phipps
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The study examines micro-level determinants of the occupational gender segregation, analyzing work values and their effects on gender (a)typical occupational preferences of adolescents. Human capital theory assumes that women develop higher preferences for a good work/life-balance in youth, whereas men develop higher extrinsic work values. Socialization theory predicts that female adolescents form ...
Bielefeld:
Universität Bielefeld,
2011,
(SFB 882 Working Paper Series No. 2)
| Anne Busch
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Mannheim:
Gesis - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften,
2017,
(GESIS Papers, 2017/30)
| Luise Burkhardt, Simone Bartsch
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According to representative survey results of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), volunteer rates have been continually rising in Germany over the past 30 years. Contributing factors include young adults’ growing willingness to volunteer as well as an increase in the volunteer behavior of older people, who begin to volunteer more often after entering retirement. A generational comparison shows that the ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
9 (2019), 42, 375-383
| Luise Burkhardt, Jürgen Schupp
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Syracuse:
Syracuse University, All-University Gerontology Center,
1991,
(Program Project Paper No. 1 "Cross-National Studies in Aging")
| Richard V. Burkhauser
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This paper focuses on the movement of data-based social policy analysis from a single country cross-sectional frame to a multicountry panel frame. It provides examples of policy insights this movement to panel data has permitted, both with respect to economic well-being and behavior—using data from the PSID (Panel Study of Income Dynamics), the BHPS (British Household Panel Study), the GSOEP (German ...
Syracuse, NY:
Syracuse University, Center for Policy Research,
2000,
(Center for Policy Research, Paper 130)
| Richard V. Burkhauser