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Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood …
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illustrate our approach by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant, sizeable and robust …
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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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How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2005 (with a phase-in period between 2002-04), the German pension administration started to send out annual letters providing detailed and...
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This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities exploiting 6,800 tax changes for identification. Using event study designs and differences-in-differences models, we find that workers bear about half of the total tax burden....
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lack of real-time microdata. This paper studies the distributional and fiscal implications of output changes in Germany …
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Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727303