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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...

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A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment

Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied …

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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

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Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: Cooperative Industrial Relations?

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and … longitudinal analysis fails to indicate that unionism retards innovation. Indeed, in conjunction with workplace representation …

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Management Compensation and Firm-Level Income Inequality

Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In recent decades, most developed countries have experienced a simultaneous increase in income inequality and management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management compensation and firm-level income dynamics in a general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the...

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Why Populist Democracy Promotes Market Liberalization

Grosjean, Pauline; Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases citizens’ support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy relies on the restriction of the sample to...

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Unequal Inequalities: Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?

Duncan, Denvil; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...

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The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms

Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...

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