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social norms. We develop a theoretical frame-work which nests various social custom models. Using micro data for Germany and …
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In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …
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In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …
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In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...
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We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous accumulation of human capital and intertemporal non- separabilities in preferences. Additionally, the model accounts for the effect of the tax and transfer system on work...
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2000s in Germany. Our study is the first to decompose this cross-sectional variance into its permanent and transitory parts … permanent component which has driven the strong expansion of cross-sectional inequality during the 2000s in Germany. -- Variance …
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search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical …
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unemployment benefits in Germany, which increases from 12 months to 18 months at the age of 45, to identify the effect of extended …
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