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Is There Scope for Gains from Revenue-Neutral Labor Tax Reforms with Flexible Outsourcing?
Koskela, Erkki - 2009
We study the effects of revenue-neutral labor tax reforms in an imperfectly competitive domestic labor market under Nash wage bargaining and flexible outsourcing. A revenue-neutral increase in the wage tax progression will decrease the negotiated wage rate, increase domestic labor demand and...
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'Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labor Market
Bargain, Olivier - 2006
We assess the labor supply effects of two quot;making work payquot; reforms in Germany. We provide evidence in favor of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780457
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Employment and taxes in Latin America : an empirical study of the effects of payroll, corporate income and value-added taxes on labor outcomes
Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Johanna - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009684152
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Labor Market and Income Effects of a Legal Minimum Wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2010
policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143678
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Labour taxes and international trade : the role of domestic labour value added
Adarov, Amat; Holzner, Mario; Jovanović, Branimir; … - 2021
This paper revisits the relationship between labour taxation and international trade, focusing on the role of domestic labour value added. Using sectoral data from 41 EU and OECD economies over the period 2005- 2014, we assess how labour taxes affect exports and imports and how domestic labour...
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Private job placement services : a microeconometric evaluation for Germany
Winterhager, Henrik (contributor) - 2006
In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out … contracted out so far in Germany. In this paper a microeconometric evaluation of this system using propensity score matching is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314709
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Do spillovers stimulate incremental or drastic product innovations? : Hypotheses and evidence from German establishment data
Jirjahn, Uwe (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003319674
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Oil and unemployment in Germany
Löschel, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2009
In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and empirical … framework of a vector autoregression (VAR) approach for Germany. For this purpose, we use three different specifications in … restricted sample period for post-unification Germany, we oppose claims that the oil to macroeconomy relationship has weakened …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806166
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The importance of equity finance for R&D activity : are there differences between young and oldcompanies?
Müller, Elisabeth (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyzes the importance of equity finance for the R&D activity of small and medium-sized enterprises. We use information on almost 6000 German SMEs from a company survey. Using the intensity of banking competition at the district level as instrument to control for endogeneity, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888735
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Heterogeneity of patenting activity and its implications for scientific research
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor);  … - 2007
publishing distinguishing between different types of patents for a large sample of professors active in Germany. Our results show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003479951