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Neven, Damien J.; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Zhang, Zhentang - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

Empirical work on price-cost margins often treats costs as exogenous. Allowing for endogenous costs when estimating price-cost margins is the topic of this paper. Methodologically, the endogenous cost model we propose leads to an additional equation that allows for the simultaneity in price...

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Entrepreneurship versus Joblessness: Explaining the Rise in Self-Employment

Falco, Paolo; Haywood, Luke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

The self-employed constitute a large proportion of the workforce in developing countries and the sector is growing. Different accounts exist as to the causes of this development, with pull factors such as high returns to capital contrasted with push factors such as barriers to more desirable...

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Social Custom, Free-Riders, and Trade Union Membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 1998

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Risk Aversion and Trade Union Membership

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk attitudes can alter collective bargaining outcomes. Using German panel data (GSOEP) and three novel...

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How to Turn an Industry Green: Taxes versus Subsidies

Dröge, Susanne; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

Environmental policies frequently target the ratio of dirty to green output within the same industry. To achieve such targets the green sector may be subsidised or the dirty sector be taxed. This paper shows that in a monopolistic competition setting the two policy instruments have different...

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A Forgotten Issue: Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

In westlichen Industrienationen besteht heute im allgemeinen ein Konsens darüber, dass die Betreuung in Kindertageseinrichtungen öffentlich subventioniert werden sollte. Weniger Klarheit besteht jedoch über die verteilungspolitischen Effekte der öffentlichen Förderung von Kinderbetreuung....

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Complexity and Progressivity in Income Tax Design: Deductions for Work-Related Expenses

Baake, Pio; Borck, Rainald; Löffler, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

characterized by higher tax burdens on low income earners and less redistribution. …

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Optimal Taxation: The Design of Child Related Cash- and In-Kind-Benefits

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current German tax and transfer system for single women...

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Voting, Inequality, and Redistribution

Borck, Rainald - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

This paper surveys models of voting on redistribution. Under reasonable assumptions, the baseline model produces an …, redistribution is from rich to poor. Increasing inequality increases redistribution. However, under different assumptions about the … economic environment, redistribution may not be simply rich to poor, and inequality need not increase redistribution. Several …

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Voting on Redistribution with Tax Evasion

Borck, Rainald - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can evade taxes, which leads to penalties if evasion is detected. Since preferences satisfy neither single peakedness nor single crossing, an equilibrium may not exist. When it does...

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