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for Germany preselected from a broader set using the Elastic Net soft-thresholding rule. The three states represent …
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We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by household income and the number of children. We use these...
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-family houses in Germany are owner-occupied, apartments are usually held by private and incorporated investors. For this reason, we …
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This paper investigates the main determinants of the regional representation of foreign employees in Germany. Since … for total foreign employment but also for the 35 most important migration countries to Germany. Based on a total census … for all 402 districts in Germany, we find a large heterogeneity in migration determinants between nationalities. We …
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order of Germany. It is argued that in post-war Europe the German social market economy as designed by Eucken (1952) and … Müller-Armack (1966) has been a core element of growth, welfare, social cohesion and political stability in Germany and …) growth and welfare in Germany and Europe. As the outcome is crumbling social cohesion and growing political instability, a …
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This paper analyzes the relevance of firm losses for tax revenues and welfare when switching from separate accounting to a system of tax base consolidation with formula apportionment. We find that a system change unambiguously decreases tax revenues in the short run, in which neither firms nor...
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In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We …
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We study the usually assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions using comprehensive German panel data. We compare non-employed individuals after plant closures with employed people regarding both income and time use as well as their subjective perceptions of these two...
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We examine whether German state governments manipulated fiscal forecasts before elections. Our data set includes three fiscal measures over the period 1980-2014. The results do not show that electoral motives influenced fiscal forecasts in West German states. By contrast, East German state...
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concentration of job exits at specific ages. In Germany, almost 30% of workers retire precisely in the month when they reach one of …
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