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Long-term effects of unpaid overtime : evidence for West Germany
Pannenberg, Markus - 2002
overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013436207
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Who are the chronic poor? : evidence on the extent and the composition of chronk poverty in Germany
Biewen, Martin - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013436298
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New Firm Formation by Industry over Space and Time: A Multi-Level Analysis
Fritsch, Michael; Falck, Oliver - 2003
formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260649
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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2003
Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simpli?es the calculations for the i.i.d. case when compared to previous...
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Distributional and Fiscal Effects of the German Tax Reform 2000 : A Behavioral Microsimulation Analysis
Steiner, Viktor; Haan, Peter - 2004
In the year 2000, the German government passed the most ambitious tax reform in postwar German history aiming at a significant tax relief for households. Drawing on data of the GSOEP, we analyze the distributional and fiscal effects of the tax reform. Our analysis employs microsimulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260709
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Household Taxation, Income Splitting and Labor Supply Incentives : A Microsimulation Study for Germany
Wrohlich, Katharina; Steiner, Viktor - 2004
wives would increase substantially in west Germany, while a significant number of husbands would drop out of the labor force. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260711
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Measuring state dependence in individual poverty status : are there feedback effects to employment decisions and household composition?
Biewen, Martin - 2004
Using a sample of prime-aged men from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper examines the effects of past poverty experience on future poverty status, future employment status and household composition. The empirical results suggest that even after controlling for observed and...
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The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality
Biewen, Martin - 2002
Germany in the eighties and nineties. Special emphasis is given to the separation of permanent and transitory components, the … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260800
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Long - Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime: Evidence for West Germany
Pannenberg, Markus - 2002
overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260801
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The Distribution and Heterogeneity of Technical Efficiency within Industries: An Empirical Assessment
Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2004
This paper analyzes the distribution of technical efficiency within manufacturing industries. Using a representative sample of 35,000 firms in 255 industries of the German cost structure census, technical efficiencies are estimated by applying a deterministic frontier production function with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260821