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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world: what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich G. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

Estimations of the shadow economies for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing countries is 38.7%, in 28 transition...

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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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Towards a European Constitution: Fiscal Federalism and the Allocation of Economic Competences

Stehn, Jürgen - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002

The paper analyzes one important aspect of the constitutional debate: the allocation of econornie competences between the EU and the mernber states. It takes the theory of fiscal federalism as a starting point for an optimal allocation of economic competences. The main message of the theory is...

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Labor productivities and labor costs in Euroland

Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

The paper presents labor productivities in the member countries of Euroland. The result is that there is quite a divergence in labor productivities (per head) in the European Monetary Union. The Netherlands and Italy reach 85 percent of the West German level, Spain 62 and Portugal 35. This...

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The wage premium of globalization: Evidence from European mergers and acquisitions

Oberhofer, Harald; Stöckl, Matthias; Winner, Hannes - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

We provide evidence on the impact of globalization on labor market outcomes analyzing pay differences between foreign …

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European Economic Integration in Econometric Modelling – Concepts, Measures and Illustration

Krieger-Boden, Christiane; Soltwedel, Rüdiger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

analyses, this paper reviews and analyses concepts and actual measures of European integration and globalization. In particular …, it discusses how to separate the effects of European integration from those of globalization. The paper searches for … regional integration and globalization indices that reduce the endogeneity problem, and it discusses collinearity between them …

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Does International Trade Catch up with National Trade of Countries? Yes.

Langhammer, Rolf J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

stands for "incomplete" globalization. It is shown that the gap has steadily declined for most countries over the sample …

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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the mechanism currently employed by the German central...

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Intergenerational Redistribution with Asymmetric Information: the Case of Non-Observable Savings

Lorz, Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

This paper analyzes intergenerational redistribution in a 2-period overlapping-generations model of a representative democracy. The model incorporates redistribution between generations and redistribution within generations, allowing for heterogeneous labor productivities in the working...

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Social Security and Redistribution Within Generations in an Overlapping-Generations Model

Lorz, Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

An overlapping generations model is set up in this paper to analyze social security policy in a representative democracy with asymmetric information. The model considers not only redistribution between generations but also redistribution within generations according to individual labor incomes....

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