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-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000 halved the tax exemption limit for capital income in Germany. We document that …
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We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria …, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …
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The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …
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Mexico leads to an increase in the skill premium in both the US and Mexico. In this paper we show on the example of Austria … and Poland that with the new international division of labour emerging in Europe Austria, the high income country, is … skill part. As a result, skilled workers in Austria are losing from outsourcing, while gaining in Poland. In Austria …
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of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …
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Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes how a minimum wage affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a statutory minimum wage of EUR 7.50 per hour would cost...
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World Cup finals were the first mega-event hosted by reunified Germany. We use this landmark event in German contemporary … history to investigate how the integration of the two parts of Germany progressed after 18 years of reunification. We still …
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