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Segmentation, switching costs and the demand for unionization in Britain

Bryson, Alex (contributor); Gómez, Rafael (contributor) - 2003

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Margins of international banking : is there a productivity Pecking order in banking, too?

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Kötter, Michael - 2009

Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks'...

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

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …

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Do better capitalized banks lend less? : long-run panel evidence from Germany

Buch, Claudia M.; Prieto, Esteban - 2012

Insufficient capital buffers of banks have been identified as one main cause for the large systemic effects of the recent financial crisis. Although higher capital is no panacea, it yet features prominently in proposals for regulatory reform. But how do increased capital requirements affect...

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Distributional effects of the European Emissions Trading System and the role of revenue recycling : empirical evidence from combined industry- and household-level data

Cludius, Johanna; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2012

We calculate the expected distributional effects of the European Emissions Trading System combining industry and household-level data. By combining data on direct CO2 emissions by production sector from the German Environmental Account with the German Input-Output Accounts, we calculate the CO2...

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Does consumption decline at retirement? : evidence from repeated cross-section data for Germany

Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2012

for Germany, this paper analyzes the retirement consumption puzzle for the German case. For our broadest consumption …

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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …

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Sharing the burden : empirical evidence on corporate tax incidence

Dwenger, Nadja; Rattenhuber, Pia; Steiner, Viktor - 2011

, 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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The demand of heterogeneous labour in Germany

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 1997

In this paper, four commonly provided explanations for the shift in labour demand for different skill groups are investigated: the substitutability of inputs; the own-price sensitivity for different types of labour; the effect of economic growth and the impact of technological change. In...

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Assimilation, labour market experience, and earnings profiles of temporary and permanent immigrant workers in Germany

Licht, Georg; Steiner, Viktor - 1993

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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