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The political economy of two-tier reforms of employment protection in Europe
Ochel, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008
history of national reform processes. In addition the paper seeks to determine whether two-tier reforms later led to EPL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790764
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"Take it or go to court" : the impact of sec. 1a of the German protection against dismissal act on severance payments
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010
In 2004, a section was added to the German Protection against Dismissal Act, establishing a new procedure to dismiss an employee, given a predetermined severance payment. Most legal scholars presume the change to be without impact, while a minority of experts claims it to be either beneficial or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003984405
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Welfare to work in the US : a model for Germany?
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2001
. Conclusions for welfare reform in Germany are drawn. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399661
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Parental leave benefit and differential fertility responses : evidence from a German reform ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, May 2015
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2015
unanticipated reform of 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By … using data from the Mikrozensus, I find that the reform significantly affected the timing of higher-order births. Overall …, mothers "just" affected by the reform initially reduce subsequent childbearing and start to compensate by the end of the third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280834
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Improving the SGP : taxes and delegation rather than fines
Lindbeck, Assar (contributor); Niepelt, Dirk (contributor) - 2005
We analyze motivations for, and possible alternatives to, the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). With regard to the former, we identify domestic policy failures and various cross-country spillover effects; with regard to the latter, we contrast an economic-theory" perspective on optimal corrective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002576733
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EMU enlargement, policy uncertainty and economic reforms
Hefeker, Carsten (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003364637
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The threat to the German welfare state
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000
Germany is in a dilemma. Low wage competition via product and factor markets increases the demands on the welfare state, but increased systems competition in the context of international factor mobility reduces the possibilities of maintaining it. The welfare state has important allocative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781597
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Labor in the boardroom
Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin; Heining, Jörg - 2019
study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138860
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Attitudes towards Euro area reforms : evidence from a randomized survey experiment
Dolls, Mathias; Wehrhöfer, Nils - 2018
We present the first evidence on public attitudes towards two prominent euro area reform proposals (European …, cosmopolitanism, political preferences and income are important predictors of support for the reform proposals. We also show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872940
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The real estate transfer tax and government ideology : evidence from the German states
Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
In 2006, the reform of the German fiscal constitution realigned legislative powers between the federal and the state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658026