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Although the optimal policy under endogenous fertility has been widely studied, the optimal public intervention under endogenous childbearing age has remained largely unexplored. This paper examines the optimal family policy in a context where the number and the timing of births are chosen by...
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We estimate the responses of gross labor income with respect to marginal and average net-oftax rates in France over the period 2003-2006. We exploit a series of reforms to the income-tax and payroll-tax schedules affecting individuals who earn less than twice the minimum wage. Our estimate for...
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Optimality conditions and comparative static properties of the optimal Mirrleesian nonlinear income tax are obtained for a finite population and quasilinear-in-consumption preferences. Contrary to Weymark (1987) who considers quasilinear-in-leisure preferences, the linearity with respect to...
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countries with weakly constraining regulations (i.e. Germany). This suggests that national regulations strongly impact IFRS …
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This article features a global picture of Latin American studies in Germany, taking into account the main universities …
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Germany and the United States to identify research and policy issues posed by the transformation we have come to call the new … commercialization of knowledge. While this study is able to identify the importance that New Economy plays in Germany and the United … compares both the similarities and differences that shifting to a New Economy has impacted Germany and the United States, and …
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France and Germany rely on different historic, religious, administrative and political traditions. In spite of these … differences remain however: a higher rate of membership and a more important weight of the foundations in Germany …
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This paper proposes an empirical analysis of the declining support for the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) during Schröder government's second term of office, which was marked by major reforms in the fields of unemployment insurance and labour market policy (Hartz reforms). Drawing on a...
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efforts have far lower success rates than selective ones. Using primary data collected both in France and Germany, we …
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primary data collected in France and Germany, we show that the decision is strongly influenced by both internal (i.e., asset …
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