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Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2021

This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities …-shifting opportunities for the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. Moreover, we show that low-skilled, young and female employees bear a …

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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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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany

Peichl, Andreas - 2010

Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood … as an increase in inequality of wages due to changes in bargaining power of employees. However, the role of changing … affect per capita incomes, which has repercussions for the income distribution even if wages remain constant. The aim of this …

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Bounds of Unfair Inequality of Opportunity : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith - 2012

illustrate our approach by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant, sizeable and robust …

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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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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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Exporting and Labor Demand : Micro-Level Evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas - 2014

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...

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