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Coles, Melvyn G.; Francesconi, Marco - 2021

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Unemployment and Domestic Violence : Theory and Evidence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2021

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...

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Green Serves the Dirtiest : On the Interaction between Black and Green Quotas

Böhringer, Christoph; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2014

Tradable black (CO2) and green (renewables) quotas gain in popularity and stringency within climate policies of many OECD countries. The overlapping regulation through both instruments, however, may have important adverse economic implications. Based on stylized theoretical analysis and...

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A Century of Shocks : The Evolution of the German City Size Distribution 1925-1999

Bosker, Erik Maarten - 2013

unique annual data set that covers most of the 20th century for 62 of West-Germany's largest cities, we look at the evolution …

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Dissatisfied with Life, but Having a Good Day : Time-Use and Well-Being of the Unemployed

Knabe, Andreas - 2009

We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day, and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are...

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How Low Business Tax Rates Attract Multinational Headquarters : Municipality-Level Evidence from Germany

Becker, Sascha O. - 2009

,000 municipalities in Germany to analyze the sensitivity of the location decisions of foreign MNEs with respect to business tax rates …

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Should Continued Family Firms Face Lower Taxes than Other Estates?

Grossmann, Volker - 2009

Inheritance taxes may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost...

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Life Cycle and Cohort Productivity in Economic Research : The Case of Germany

Rauber, Michael - 2009

We examine the research productivity of German academic economists over their life cycles. It turns out that the career-patterns of research productivity as measured by journal publications are characterized by marked cohort effects. Moreover, the life-cycles of younger German economists are...

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Work Incentives? Ex Post Effects of Unemployment Insurance Sanctions - Evidence from West Germany

Hofmann, Barbara - 2008

recipients to stay unemployed. Empirical evidence about the effects of UI sanctions in Germany is sparse. Using administrative … data we investigate the effects of sanctions on the reemployment probability in West Germany for individuals who entered UI …. The results indicate positive effects on the employment probability in regular employment for both women and men …

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Strategic Consolidation Under Formula Apportionment

Buettner, Thiess - 2008

-shifting, are large. We test this prediction using confidential firm-level tax-return data for the local business tax in Germany …

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