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Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers? employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …
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Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a …
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With banking sectors worldwide still suffering from the effects of the financial crisis, public discussion of plans to place toxic assets in one or more bad banks has gained steam in recent weeks. The following paper presents a plan how governments can efficiently relieve ailing banks from toxic...
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This study analyzes the effect of child care costs on the labor supply of mothers with preschool children in Germany … explained by the fact that child care costs are already heavily subsidized in Germany. …
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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We identify the characteristics of the self …
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security contributions to people with low-earnings jobs) introduced in Germany in April 2003. The analysis is based on a …
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This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current German tax and transfer system for single women...
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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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Vor zehn Jahren hat der deutsche Wissenschaftsrat mit seiner Forderung nach einer Verstärkung der akademischen Forschungsleistungen an den deutschen Wirtschaftsforschungsinstituten einen Regimewechsel eingeleitet. Der Anstoß wurde von der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, der Dachgesellschaft der...
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We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid (BAfoeG) provided by the federal government using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Potential student aid is derived on the basis of a detailed taxbenefit microsimulation...
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