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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...

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Unemployment and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Analysis within the Augmented Solow Model

Bräuninger, Michael; Pannenberg, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised Solow-type growth model, yields some answers. In the traditional Solow model, unemployment has no long-run influence … on the growth rate and the level of productivity. The long-run level of productivity is reduced if higher unemployment …

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Contribution to Productivity or Pork Barrel?: The Two Faces of Infrastructure Investment

Cadot, Olivier; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so …

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Enrolment into Higher Education and Changes in Repayment Obligations of Student Aid: Microeconometric Evidence for Germany

Baumgartner, Hans J.; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

We evaluate the effect of the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) on enrolment rates into higher education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. Supported students had to repay the full loan until 1990....

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Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education?: Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001

Baumgartner, Hans J.; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount received by eligible students to raise enrolment...

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Endogenous Distribution, Politics and Growth

Das, Satya; Ghate, Chetan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

This paper generalizes the analysis of distributive conflict, politics, and growth developed by by Alesina-Rodrik (1994 …). We construct a heterogenous-agent framework in which both growth and the distribution of wealth are endogenous. Due to … implies that the optimal tax rate is the same for all households and equals the growth maximizing tax rate. Hence, there is no …

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Income Thresholds and Income Classes

D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Muliere, Pietro; Secchi, Piercesare - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper proposes a method for detecting income classes based on the change-point problem. There is an increasing demand for such a method in the literature. Computation of polarization indices requires a pre-grouping of the incomes. Similarly, indices of social exclusion and sometimes indices...

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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992 - 2001

Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

substantial drop of median income and a remarkable income growth at the top 0.1% of the income distribution. The increase of …

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Top Incomes and Top Taxes in Germany

Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

We analyze the distribution and taxation of top incomes in Germany during the 1990s on the basis of individual tax returns data. We derive a measure of economic income from taxable gross income as reported in the tax returns. Thanks to complete sampling, we can deliver a very precise description...

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Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off ?

Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to compare effective average tax rates for different household...

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