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European inflation expectations dynamics

Slacalek, Jirka; Fritsche, Ulrich; Dovern, Jonas; … - 2005

four major European economies (France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom). As opposed to the benchmark rational …

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Real-time macroeconomic data and ex ante predictability of stock returns

Döpke, Jörg; Hartmann, Daniel; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2006

We report results on the ex ante predictability of monthly excess stock returns in Germany using real-time and revised …

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Why did self-employment increase so strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2015

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …

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New Firm Formation by Industry over Space and Time: A Multi-Level Analysis

Fritsch, Michael; Falck, Oliver - 2003

formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis …

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Distributional and Fiscal Effects of the German Tax Reform 2000 : A Behavioral Microsimulation Analysis

Steiner, Viktor; Haan, Peter - 2004

In the year 2000, the German government passed the most ambitious tax reform in postwar German history aiming at a significant tax relief for households. Drawing on data of the GSOEP, we analyze the distributional and fiscal effects of the tax reform. Our analysis employs microsimulation...

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Household Taxation, Income Splitting and Labor Supply Incentives : A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Wrohlich, Katharina; Steiner, Viktor - 2004

wives would increase substantially in west Germany, while a significant number of husbands would drop out of the labor force. …

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The Distribution and Heterogeneity of Technical Efficiency within Industries: An Empirical Assessment

Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2004

This paper analyzes the distribution of technical efficiency within manufacturing industries. Using a representative sample of 35,000 firms in 255 industries of the German cost structure census, technical efficiencies are estimated by applying a deterministic frontier production function with...

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Labor Market Effects of the German Tax Reform 2000

Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - 2005

In the year 2000, the German government passed the most ambitious tax reform in postwar German history aiming at a significant tax relief for households. An important aim of this tax reform was to improve work incentives and, thereby, foster employment. Drawing on data of the German Socio...

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Self-employment: A Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

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Naturalization proclivities, ethnicity and integration

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2007

This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect … on citizenship acquisition. While a longer residence in Germany has a negative influence on actual or future …

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