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Germany's Economic Unification : An Assessment after Ten Years
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000
A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real … west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …
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Riester Pensions in Germany : Design, Dynamics, Targetting Success and Crowding-In
Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2012
Riester pensions are voluntary, but heavily subsidized private pension schemes in Germany. They were designed as a …
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Inheritance Taxation and Wealth Effects on the Labor Supply of Heirs
Kindermann, Fabian - 2018
The taxation of bequests can have a positive impact on the labor supply of heirs through wealth effects. This leads to an increase in future labor income tax revenue on top of direct bequest tax revenue. We first show in a theoretical model that a simple back-of-the-envelope calculation, based...
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Increasing Hours Worked : Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform
Tazhitdinova, Alisa - 2020
. This paper studies a unique reform in Germany that allowed workers to hold small secondary jobs tax-free, decreasing the …
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Japanese Foreign Exchange Interventions, 1971-2018 : Estimating a Reaction Function Using the Best Proxy
Ito, Takatoshi - 2020
timings and amounts for Japan, the US, and Germany. Fourth, we present the episode of international coordination represented …
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Estimating the Impacts of Program Benefits : Using Instrumental Variables with Underreported and Imputed Data
Stephens, Melvin, Jr - 2015
Survey non-response has risen in recent years which has increased the share of imputed and underreported values found on commonly used datasets. While this trend has been well-documented for earnings, the growth in non-response to government transfers questions has received far less attention....
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The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 1886-2002 : Evidence from Income Tax Statistics
Moriguchi, Chiaki - 2006
This paper studies the evolution of income concentration in Japan from 1886 to 2002 by constructing long-run series of top income shares and top wage income shares, using income tax statistics. We find that (1) income concentration was extremely high throughout the pre-WWII period during which...
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The impact of G-3 exchange rate volatility on developing countries
Esquivel, Gerardo (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …
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Low Wage Services : Interpreting the US - German Difference
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
-wage services in the US and Germany. We find a clear low-wage service jobs deficit' in Germany but this is not due to excessively …
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