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The Cost of Public Funding with Direct and Indirect Taxation - a Revisit

Holtsmark, Bjart; Holtsmark, Katinka Kristine - 2021

The paper shows that the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) does not depend on whether public revenue is collected by taxation of consumer goods or income from factors supplied by households on the market. Atkinson and Stern (1974) concluded in their seminal paper that “[...] whether the...

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To React or Not? Fiscal Policy, Volatility and Welfare in the EU-3

Malley, James R. - 2008

implications of countercyclical fiscal policy for France, Germany and the UK. The model incorporates real wage rigidity which is …

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Social Capital and the Spread of Covid-19 : Insights from European Countries

Bartscher, Alina K. - 2020

, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …

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O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries

Altmejd, Adam - 2020

Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal effects is notoriously difficult. Using admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile,...

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The Role of Volunteers in German Refugee Crisis and Their Contribution to the Local Government Expenditure

Nam, Chang Woon - 2019

This study deals with a specific volunteering aspect revealed in the German refugee crisis 2015/16. German federalism prescribing interjurisdictional assignments of tasks for designing, financing and implementing services for refugees and their geographic distribution have made municipalities...

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Dissonant Works Councils and Establishment Survivability

Addison, John T. - 2019

plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects of worker representation on plant survivability have been little …

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The Euro Exchange Rate and Germany's Trade Surplus

Hohberger, Stefan - 2019

We estimate a three-region (DE-REA-RoW) structural macroeconomic model, and we provide a counterfactual on how nominal exchange rate flexibility would have affected the German trade balance (TB) by simulating the shocks of the estimated model under a counterfactual flexible exchange rate regime....

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How Does Exposure to COVID-19 Influence Health and Income Inequality Aversion?

Asaria, Miqdad; Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2021

We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the population in each country. Comparing levels of...

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COVID-Induced School Closures in the US and Germany : Long-Term Distributional Effects

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2022

dropped on average by -55% in the US and -45% in Germany from the onset of the crisis to the summer of 2021. In the US …, schools were closed longer in richer than in poorer areas, while in Germany the regional variation is much smaller. However …, Germany exhibited substantial variation by grade level, with a strong U-shaped patterns that implies that children attending …

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Early Childcare Duration and Students' Later Outcomes in Europe

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2022

The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality. However, some evidence also suggests that the positive...

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