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Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? : a microsimulation study for Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution … system of meanstested income support. -- minimum wage, wage distribution ; working poor ; poverty reduction ; microsimulation …

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When Distrust Goes Viral : Causal Effects of COVID-19 on European Political Attitudes

Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea FM; … - 2021

To investigate how Covid-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about institutions, we conducted a large online survey experiment during the first wave of the epidemic (June). With a randomised survey ow we varied whether respondents are given Covid-related treatment questions first, before...

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COVID-19 Fatalities and Internal Conflict : Does Government Economic Support Matter?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Gholipour, Hassan F. - 2021

In this study, we look at the association between COVID-19 fatality rate and internal conflict, highlighting the importance of government economic support under the pandemic as a moderating factor. Our main hypothesis implies that increased COVID-19 fatality rates are likely to be positively...

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Non-take-up of means-tested social benefits in Germany

Harnisch, Michelle - 2019

This paper presents non-take-up rates of benefits from the German Income Support for Job Seekers scheme, called Unemployment Benefit II (Arbeitslosengeld II ). Eligibility to these benefits is simulated by applying a microsimulation model based on data from the Socio-economic Panel for the years...

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Non-take-up of means-tested social benefits in Germany

Harnisch, Michelle - 2019 - Corrected version

This paper presents non-take-up rates of benefits from the German Income Support for Job Seekers scheme, called Unemployment Benefit II (Arbeitslosengeld II). Eligibility to these benefits is simulated by applying a microsimulation model based on data from the Socio-economic Panel for the years...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012041328

Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...

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Die sozioökonomischen Folgen eines einkommensabhängigen Kindergeldzuschlags : eine Mikrosimulation der "Grünen Kindergrundsicherung"

Otto, Birgit - 2002

Versuch, die Armut von Kindern unabhängig von den Ursachen der familiären Armut sowie von der Bedarfssituation der anderen … und Beruf miteinander zu vereinbaren und somit familiäre Armut zu vermeiden, wird durch einen einkommensabhängigen …

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Car road charging : impact assessment on German and Austrian households

Kalinowska, Dominika; Steininger, Karl W. - 2009

The authors apply a computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling framework to carry out a two-country comparison for Austria and Germany assessing the impact of road charging (RC). The pricing policy measure is introduced for the private motorized transport mode and applies to the overall road...

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Assessing the strength and effectiveness of renewable electricity feed-in tariffs in European Union countries

Groba, Felix; Indvik, Joe; Jenner, Steffen - 2011

In the last two decades, feed-in tariffs (FIT) and renewable portfolio standards (RPS) have emerged as two of the most popular policies for supporting renewable electricity (RES-E) generation in the developed world. A few studies have assessed their effectiveness, but most do not account for...

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Have state renewable portfolio standards really worked? : synthesizing past policy assessments to build an integrated econometric analysis of RPS effectiveness in the US

Shrimali, Gireesh; Jenner, Steffen; Groba, Felix; Chan, … - 2012

Renewable portfolio standards (RPS) are the most popular U.S. state-level policies for promoting deployment of renewable electricity (RES-E). While several econometric studies have estimated the effect of RPS on in-state RES-E deployment, results are contradictory. We reconcile these studies and...

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