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Moretti, Luca; Mayerl, Martin; Mühlemann, Samuel; … - 2017

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …

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Income taxes, gross hourly wages, and the anatomy of behavioral responses : evidence from a Danish tax reform

Sumiya, Kazuhiko; Bagger, Jesper - 2022

This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of income taxes on gross hourly wages by utilizing administrative data and a tax reform in Denmark. The reform introduced joint taxation to a middle tax bracket, bringing large changes to the tax system facing married couples. Using...

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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Optimal taxation, inequality and top incomes

Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of the income distribution. This paper applies the theory of optimal piecewise linear taxation to...

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Comparison between unitary and collective models of household labor supply with taxation

Beninger, Denis - 2002

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The effects of marginal employment on subsequent labour market outcomes

Böheim, René - 2006

We analyse the consequences of starting a wage subsidised job, "marginal employment", for unemployed workers. Marginal employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not lose their unemployment benefits if the wage is below a certain threshold. We ask if the...

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Die Sehnsucht der Russen nach dem Sozialstaat

Tichonova, Natalʹja Evgenʹevna - In: Orientierungen zur Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftspolitik (1998), pp. 53-56

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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien

Wagner, Gert G.; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …

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Life course risks, mobility regimes, and mobility consequences : a comparison of Sweden, Germany, and the U.S.

DiPrete, Thomas A. - 2001

grown during the recent past. Meta-analysis of available evidence for Sweden, western Germany, and the United States …

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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002 - This version: 17 July 2002

across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

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