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Distributional and Behavioral Effects of the Gender Wage Gap

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional...

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Einfluss der Einkommensposition auf die Gesundheit und Lebenserwartung

Lampert, Thomas; Kroll, Lars Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

German Socio-Economic Panel shows that the level of income also affects a person's health and life expectancy. People's self …-assessment of their health and health-related quality of life follow a distribution pattern which can be described as gradient: the … lower the income, the more frequent the impairments to subjective health. Life expectancy statistics also reflect income …

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Assessing the Strength and Effectiveness of Renewable Electricity Feed-in Tariffs in European Union Countries

Groba, Felix; Indvik, Joe; Jenner, Steffen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

In the last two decades, feed-in tariffs (FIT) and renewable portfolio standards (RPS) have emerged as two of the most popular policies for supporting renewable electricity (RES-E) generation in the developed world. A few studies have assessed their effectiveness, but most do not account for...

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Taxation, Insurance and Precautionary Labor

Netzer, Nick; Scheuer, Florian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

We examine optimal taxation and social insurance if insurance markets are imperfect. This requires the development of a theory of labor supply under uncertainty. We show that the case for social insurance is not generally reinforced by adverse selection in insurance markets as social insurance...

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Economic, Environmental and International Trade Effects of the EU Directive on Energy Tax Harmonization

Kohlhaas, Michael; Schumacher, Katja; Diekmann, Jochen; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

In October 2003, the European Union introduced a Directive which widens the scope of the EU's minimum taxation system from mineral oils to all energy products including coal, natural gas and electricity. It aims at reducing distortions that currently exist between Member States as well as...

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Langfristige Folgen einer Einbeziehung der Selbständigen in die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung

Kifmann, Mathias - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

This paper examines the consequences of including the self-employed in the German pay-as-you-go pension system. The effects on the implicit tax rate of the different generations and groups are analysed. It is demonstrated that the inclusion of the self-employed can be used to reach two...

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Modellgestützte Analyse der ökologischen Steuerreform mit LEAN, PANTA RHEI: und dem Potsdamer Mikrosimulationsmodell

Bach, Stefan; Kohlhaas, Michael; Meyer, Bernd; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

allgemeines Gleichgewichtsmodell - eingesetzt. Die Wirkungen auf die personelle Einkommensverteilung wurden mit einem …

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Corrective Ad Valorem and Unit Taxes: A Welfare Comparison

Dröge, Susanne; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

-Stiglitz monopolistic competition. Yet, in a number of policy fields, such as environmental, health or trade economics, policy makers apply …

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Car Road Charging: Impact Assessment on German and Austrian Households

Kalinowska, Dominika; Steininger, Karl W. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

The authors apply a computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling framework to carry out a two-country comparison for Austria and Germany assessing the impact of road charging (RC). The pricing policy measure is introduced for the private motorized transport mode and applies to the overall road...

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Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...

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