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Employment and Earnings Effects of Awarding Training Vouchers in Germany

Doerr, Annabelle - 2014

In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by …

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Three Family Policies to Reconcile Fertility and Labor Supply

Fenge, Robert - 2014

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare....

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Subsidies for Wages and Infrastructure : How to Restrain Undesired Immigration

Meier, Volker - 2006

This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment. Matching grants for investment in infrastructure are...

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010

start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …

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The Ifo Investment Database

Strobel, Thomas - 2013

In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in 50 German industries from 1991 onward. The data is consistent with national accounts statistics provided by the German Federal Statistical Office and is based on investments in...

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Assessing the Macroeconomic Forecasting Performance of Boosting - Evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany

Buchen, Teresa - 2013

to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …

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Decomposition of Demographic Effects on the German Pension System

Fenge, Robert - 2018

The paper analyses the impact of demographic developments on the German pension system until the year 2060. The projections are simulated for a range of assumptions on the latest demographic trends and on the labour market and comprise the latest pension legislation. As a central innovation we...

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Descriptive Evidence on Labor Market Transitions and the Wage Structure in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008

structure in Germany. Motivated by search theory, we use the data to explore descriptively labor market transitions and features … close relationship exists between wages and labor market transitions as predicted by search theory. However, the noticeable …

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The Phillips Curve and NAIRU Revisited : New Estimates for Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008

This paper provides new estimates of a time-varying NAIRU for Germany taking account of the structural break caused by … inflation rates is employed. Therefore, either the NAIRU concept is not applicable to Germany or, as it is our suggestion, one … compatible with 2 percent inflation in Germany is currently around 7 percent if the definition of unemployment follows the …

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Mixing Bismarck and Child Pension Systems : An Optimum Taxation Approach

Fenge, Robert - 2006

The labor-leisure distortion of a pay-as-you-go pension system can be reduced through a stronger tax-benefit link or Bismarck pension system. Distortions of the fertility decision can be reduced through the introduction of a stronger child-benefit or child pension system. Within our optimal...

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