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SOEPpapers 721 / 2014
Background: After the reunification of Germany, mortality among older eastern Germans converged quickly with western German levels. Simultaneously, the pension benefits of eastern Germans rose tenfold. Objective: We make use of German reunification as a natural experiment to show that, first, increasing financial transfers from the elderly to their children led to increasing reverse transfers in the ...
2014| Tobias C. Vogt, Fanny A. Kluge
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SOEPpapers 720 / 2014
In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age of 40. A second observation ...
2014| Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
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SOEPpapers 716 / 2014
In this paper we present sibling and neighbor correlations in school grades and cognitive skills as well as indicators of physical and mental health for a sample of German adolescents. In a first step, we estimate sibling correlations and find substantial influence of shared family and community background on all outcomes. To further disentangle the influence of family background and neighborhood, ...
2014| Elisabeth Bügelmayer, Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Diskussionspapiere 1446 / 2015
We estimate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most paid employees, but not for the self-employed, who usually buy private health insurance. Private health insurance contributions are relatively low for the young ...
2015| Frank M. Fossen, Johannes König
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Other refereed articles
Health care is an important sector in all European countries showing a high dynamic in the past. In 2011 about 23 million persons were employed in health and social care, that is to say 10.4% of total employment. The share of health care expenditures in GDP was 10%. The health care workforce increased despite the overall trend of declining employment also during the economic crisis. The high dynamic ...
In:
Zdrowie Publiczne i Zarządzanie
11 (2013), 2, S. 107-124
| Erika Schulz
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Objective To quantify the association between long working hours and alcohol use.Design Systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished individual participant data.Data sources A systematic search of PubMed and Embase databases in April 2014 for published studies, supplemented with manual searches. Unpublished individual participant data were obtained from 27 additional studies.Review ...
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The BMJ
350 (2015), g7772, S. 1-14
| Marianna Virtanen, Markus Jokela, Solja T. Nyberg, Ida E. H. Madsen, Tea Lallukka, Kirsi Ahola, Lars Alfredsson, G. David Batty, Jakob B. Bjorner, Marianne Borritz, Hermann Burr, Annalisa Casini, Els Clays, Dirk De Bacquer, Nico Dragano, Raimund Erbel, Jane E. Ferrie, Eleonor I. Fransson, Mark Hamer, Katriina Heikkilä, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, France Kittel, Anders Knutsson, Markku Koskenvuo, Karl-Heinz Ladwig, Thorsten Lunau, Martin L. Nielsen, Maria Nordin, Tuula Oksanen, Jan H. Pejtersen, Jaana Pentti, Reiner Rugulies, Paula Salo, Jürgen Schupp, Johannes Siegrist, Archana Singh-Manoux, Andrew Steptoe, Sakari B. Suominen, Töres Theorell, Jussi Vahtera, Gert G. Wagner, Peter J. M. Westerholm, Hugo Westerlund, Mika Kivimäki
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DIW Economic Bulletin 12 / 2014
Shocks experienced during early childhood can harm the long term growth of children. We examine the potential impact of extreme weather events on children’s height,taking the example of Mongolia, which is frequently plagued by extreme winters. Our focus is on the unusually harsh winter of 2009/10, which caused the deaths of over 10 million animals, approximately 23.9 percent of the country’s entire ...
2014| Valeria Groppo, Kati Krähnert
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DIW Economic Bulletin 12 / 2014
2014
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DIW Economic Bulletin 12 / 2014
Colombia has the highest number of internally displaced refugees in the world after Syria. The decade-long ongoing armed conflict between the Colombian police and the armed forces, paramilitaries, and guerilla groups has caused 5.7 million people—more than ten percent of the population—to flee their homelands. Many of them are women and children, driven off their lands, in most cases, to the misery ...
2014| Nina Wald
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We analyze the effect of the receipt of remittances on the education and health of children in Kyrgyzstan during a volatile period of their recent history, 2005–2009. The country experienced revolution in 2005 and the global financial crisis beginning in 2008. Both events impact human capital investment, and the changes vary by region of the country. We use fixed effects estimation and fixed effects, ...
In:
Journal of Comparative Economics
42 (2014), 3, S. 770-785
| Antje Kröger, Kathryn H. Anderson