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The Effect of a Bonus Program for Preventive Health Behavior on Health Expenditures
Augurzky, Boris; Reichert, Arndt R.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2012
This paper contributes to the analysis of policy measures that attempt to reduce health care expenditures of insurers. We examine the impact of a cash bonus program for preventive health behavior of a German health insurer on prevention eff ort and health care expenditures using a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289830
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Germany's Solar Cell Promotion: Dark Clouds on the Horizon
Frondel, Manuel; Ritter, Nolan; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2008
This article demonstrates that the large feed-in tariffs currently guaranteed for solar electricity in Germany constitute a subsidization regime that, if extended to 2020, threatens to reach a level comparable to that of German hard coal production, a notoriously outstanding example of misguided...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264711
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Economic Impacts from the Promotion of Renewable Energy Technologies - The German Experience
Frondel, Manuel; Ritter, Nolan; Schmidt, Christoph M.; … - 2009
The allure of an environmentally benign, abundant, and cost-effective energy source has led an increasing number of industrialized countries to back public financing of renewable energies. Germany's experience with renewable energy promotion is often cited as a model to be replicated elsewhere,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265788
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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … – evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from … the perspective of the recent evaluation literature in economics and statistics, thus providing a frame of reference for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262390
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Active Labor Market Policy in Germany - Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002
Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262675
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Active labor market policy in Germany : is there a successful policy strategy?
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002
Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413370
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Discretionary measures of active labor market policy : the German employment promotion reform in perspective
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … - evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from … the perspective of the recent evaluation literature in economics and statistics, thus providing a frame of reference for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336861
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Zweiter Zwischenbericht : Schwerpunktthema Unternehmensbefragung
Dehio, Jochen; Dürig, Wolfgang; Eckl, Verena; Engel, Dirk - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009711087
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Erster Zwischenbericht : September 2006
Dehio, Jochen; Dürig, Wolfgang; Engel, Dirk; Graskamp, … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009712920