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, using estimations based on a unique pseudo-panel data set from Germany for the period 1998 to 2006. Tax return data cover …
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Germany which allows us to control for unobserved population heterogeneity and potential selectivity bias arising from an …-worker system we use information on an immigrant's expected duration of stay in Germany to distinguish between temporary and … of stay. We find that years of schooling in Germany have a strong positive effect on earnings, that earnings …
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We analyze guest-workers' expected duration of stay in Germany within an econometric model taking into account the …
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inequality in Germany has increased very little in the 1980's, if at all. It is shown ·that the marked increase in earnings …
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whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue …
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At the start of the German unification process it was a commonly held view that east German living conditions will converge to west Geman levels within a few years. This view was not only held by notoriously optimistic politicians but also by a great many of professional economists. With...
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We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …
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This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 …
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Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...
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