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The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn
Becker, Sascha; Heblich, Stephan; Sturm, Daniel - 2018
This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic...
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Effects of Innovation on Employment : A Dynamic Panel Analysis
Lachenmaier, Stefan; Rottmann, Horst - 2021
panel GMM system estimation we find positive effects of innovation on employment. This result is robust to the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317021
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
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Tax Morale After the Reunification of Germany : Results from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Feld, Lars P.; Torgler, Benno - 2021
This paper provides a comparison of tax morale between inhabitants of East and West Germany in its post … compared to cross-country studies. Our findings show higher tax morale in East than in West Germany. However, in only 9 years … the East. We suggest that this convergence in tax morale between East and West Germany, despite efforts of the federal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317223
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Trade Costs, Market Access and Economic Geography : Why the Empirical Specification of Trade Costs Matters
Bosker, Erik Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2021
Trade costs are crucial in new economic geography (NEG) models. The unavailability of actual trade costs data requires the approximation of trade costs. Most NEG studies do not deal with the ramifications of the particular trade costs specification used. This paper shows that the specification...
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Sales and Markup Dispersion : Theory and Empirics
Mrazova, Monika - 2019
We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of demand in monopolistic competition. Applications include a new “CREMR” demand function (Constant Revenue Elasticity of Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for...
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Optimal Carbon Taxation and Horizontal Equity : A Welfare-Theoretic Approach with Application to German Household Data
Hänsel, Martin C.; Franks, Max; Kalkuhl, Matthias; … - 2021
We develop a model of optimal carbon taxation and redistribution taking into account horizontal equity concerns by considering heterogeneous energy efficiencies. By deriving first- and secondbest rules for policy instruments including carbon taxes, transfers and energy subsidies, we then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239565
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Monetary Policy in the Presence of Supply Constraints : Evidence from German Firm-Level Data
Balleer, Almut; Noeller, Marvin - 2023
Using firm-level survey data from Germany, this paper asks how do supply constraints propagate monetary policy shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261028
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Do Left-Wing Governments Decrease Wage Inequality Among Civil Servants? Empirical Evidence from the German States
Kauder, Björn; Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We investigate whether left-wing governments decrease wage inequality among civil servants. The data is based on salaries of civil servants in the German states. Since a reform in 2006, German state governments are allowed to design salaries of civil servants. We employ encompassing data for pay...
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Labor Market Effects of a Minimum Wage : Evidence from Ecuadorian Monthly Administrative Data
Choi, Jaerim; Rivadeneyra, Ivan; Ramirez, Kenia - 2021
When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...
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