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Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however fulltime employment rates are …, differences in mothers’ employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …
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This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer-employee dataset LIAB. IZAΨMOD consists of three components:...
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Germany plays a pioneering role in replacing conventional power plants with renewable energy sources. While this is …
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This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
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investigate the effect of increases in the Value Added Tax on labor supply and the income distribution in Germany, which is …
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Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …
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on the universe of professional soccer players in Germany over the period 1999-2011. Combining this data with hourly …
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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
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This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...
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Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a …
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