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Expanding the welfare system : a proposal for reform

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

The proposal involves the establishment of ?welfare accounts? for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...

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Guilt aversion and redistributive politics: A moral intuitionist approach

Le Garrec, Gilles - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

show that people do care about fairness in their demand for redistribution. In this article, in the spirit of the new … synthesis in moral psychology (Haidt, 2007: The new synthesis in moral psychology) the author proposes to modelize the voting … behavior over redistribution as the interaction between (a) an automatic cognitive process which quickly generates intuitions …

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Science and ideology in economic, political and social thought

Hillinger, Claude - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and social choice. In all of these fields I attempted to apply the basic precepts of the scientific method as it is understood in the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using...

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Does US Aid Buy UN General Assembly Votes? A Disaggregated Analysis

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly. We use disaggregated aid data to account for the fact that various forms … voting compliance in the Assembly. More specifically, our results suggest that general budget support and untied grants are …

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Information, heterogeneity and market incompleteness

Graham, Liam; Wright, Stephen - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

We provide a microfounded account of imperfect information in a dynamic general equilibrium model by describing heterogeneous households that acquire information only through their participation in markets. Thus incomplete markets will imply incomplete information. We solve the model taking full...

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Der Einfluss des Erdölpreises auf die Energiesteuerprognose

Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Zusammenhänge zwischen Erdölpreisen, Kraftstoffpreisen, verbrauchten Mengen und dem Energiesteueraufkommen. Wesentliche Ergebnisse sind, dass die verbrauchten Kraftstoffmengen mit der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Produktion und den Erdölpreisen schwanken. Vor...

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Verhindert ein Mindestlohn eine Ausbeutung des Staates?

Boss, Alfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

It is argued that the German system of supporting low wage income earners by government transfers gives incentives for employers and employees to contract low wages and then to exploit the government. The paper analyses if such incentives do exist. It turns out that this is the case under...

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Incentives to Work: The Case of Germany

Boss, Alfred; Elendner, Thomas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005

Based on a description of the German system of taxes and transfers, the incentives to work are analyzed for several groups of the labor force. The effects of the “Hartz IV” reform (effective from 2005 onwards) on the incentives receive particular attention. It turns out that the marginal...

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Die Änderungen des Einkommensteuertarifs: Folgen für das Lohnsteueraufkommen und die Leistungsanreize

Boss, Achim; Boss, Alfred; Boss, Thomas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The income tax rate structure introduced in 2007 was changed in 2009. The income tax rates will be lowered in 2010, too. The effects on the wage income tax revenues and on the incentives to work are analyzed. It turns out that “bracket creep” will remain a problem in Germany

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Das Lohnsteueraufkommen in Deutschland - Erklärung und Prognose auf Basis der Lohnsteuerstatistik

Boss, Achim; Boss, Alfred; Boss, Thomas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The gross wage income distributions for different groups of taxpayers in 2004 are used to derive wage income distributions for 2007–2013. By applying the rules of income taxation, wage income tax revenues are deduced. Given the tax rate structure introduced in 2007, the average tax rates and...

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