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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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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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Buffering Volatility : A Study on the Limits of Germany's Energy Revolution

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2016

requires a storage capacity of over 6,000 pumped-storage plants, which is 183 times Germany's current capacity. Taking the … Europe. This will make it difficult for Germany to pursue its energy revolution towards green autarchy, as intended …

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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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Target Balances and the German Financial Account in Light of the European Balance-of-Payments Crisis

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2013

look at the components of this reversal of capital flows for the case of Germany. Its main finding is that most of the … Germany is small by comparison, with purchases of German government bonds increasing substantially, in particular by Spanish … and Irish investors. Some foreign capital even left Germany. In net terms, over the years 2008, 2009 and 2011 foreigners …

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The Pathological Export Boom and the Bazaar Effect - How to Solve the German Puzzle

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021

Germany is the laggard of Europe, yet the country is world champion in merchandise exports. The paper tries to solve … wages defended by unions and the welfare state against the forces of international low-wage competition destroy too big a …, causing both unemployment and excessive value added in exports. Moreover, excessive wages induce too much outsourcing of …

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Boosting and Regional Economic Forecasting : The Case of Germany

Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2021

German states (the Free State of Saxony and Baden-Wuerttemberg) and Eastern Germany for the period from 1997 to 2013, in …

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