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Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies the design of indirect redistributive taxation and of corrective taxation, as well as the formation of equilibrium indirect tax policies via a political process, in the presence of status goods, allowing for the possibility that illegal copies of those goods may be purchased...

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Information Asymmetry, Education Signals and the Case of Ethnic and Native Germans

Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2009

This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (“Native Germans”). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the...

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Measuring overeducation with earnings frontiers and multiply imputed censored income data

Jensen, Uwe; Gartner, Hermann; Rässler, Susanne - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006

estimation of earnings frontiers: the censoring of the income data, by multiple imputation. Then, we estimate individual … potential income with stochastic earnings frontiers, and we measure overeducation as the ratio between actual income and … potential income. It is shown that the measurement of overeducation by this income ratio is a valuable addition to the …

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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of Ethnic and Native Germans

Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background ('Native Germans'). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973883