Die in Aussicht gestellten Steuererleichterungen sind das beherrschende Thema der ersten Wochen nach Amtsantritt der neuen Bundesregierung. Die vorliegende Studie enthält eine Simulation der mutmaßlichen Effekte einer Umsetzung des von der FDP vorgeschlagenen Stufentarifs und Bürgergelds auf...

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...

This is the first paper to thoroughly investigate the employment effects of corporate taxation. Higher taxes are theoretically shown to have a negative impact on employment through reduced investments, if labor is regionally mobile. I test this prediction by exploiting the specific setting of...