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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8819 Corrado Andini
Monica Andini
A Note on Unemployment Persistence and Quantile Parameter Heterogeneity
The standard approach to the estimation of unemployment persistence assumes that quantile parameter heterogeneity does not matter. Using panel quantile autoregression techniques on state-level data ...
(extended version published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2018, 22 (5), 1298-1320)
C23, J64
8818 Michael Fritsch
Alexander S. Kritikos
Alina Sorgner
Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main ...
(published in: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2015, 67 (2), 307-333)
L26, D22
8817 Marco Caliendo
Jens Hogenacker
Steffen Künn
Frank Wießner
Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 45(1), 2015, 165-190)
C14, L26, J68
8816 Frank M. Fossen
Johannes König
Public Health Insurance and Entry into Self-Employment
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 ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (3), 647-669)
L26, I13, J2
8815 David Bardey
Helmuth Cremer
Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
The Design of Insurance Coverage for Medical Products under Imperfect Competition
This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the market for the medical product. Various scenarios, such as monopoly pricing, ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 137, 28 -37)
I11, I13, I18
8814 Stefanie Schurer
Michael Alspach
Jayden MacRae
Greg L. Martin
The Medical Care Costs of Mood Disorders: A Coarsened Exact Matching Approach
This paper is the first to use the method of coarsened exact matching (CEM) to estimate the impact of mood disorders on medical care costs in order to address the endogeneity of mood disorders. ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2016, 92 (296), 81–93)
H51, I18
8813 Marco Francesconi
Robert Pollak
Domenico Tabasso
Unequal Bequests
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally ...
(publlished in: European Economic Review, 2023, 157, 104513)
D13, J12, K36
8812 Erik Hernaes
Simen Markussen
John Piggott
Knut Røed
Pension Reform and Labor Supply: Flexibility vs. Prescription
We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply responses to alternative pension reform strategies relying on improved work ...
(revised version published as 'Pension Reform and Labor Supply' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 142, 39–55)
H55, J22, J26
8811 Bernhard Boockmann
Tobias Brändle
Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back into the Labor Market?
Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a large number of studies, but the evidence for older and hard-to-place unemployed ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e436-e468)
J68, J14
8810 Ali Termos
Ismail H. Genc
George S Naufal
A Tacit Monetary Policy of the Gulf Countries: Is There a Remittances Channel?
The strong economic ties between the GCC economies and the U.S. are manifested in three ways: currency peg, coupling of monetary policy, and the adoption of the U.S. dollar as the trading currency ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2016, 20 (2), 599-610)
F24, N15
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