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Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? : a microsimulation study for Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal minimum wage of € 7.5 per hour on the basis of a...

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Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition : the German experience

Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine propensity score matching with a discrete-time hazard...

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"Marginal employment": stepping stone or dead end? : evaluating the German experience

Freier, Ronny (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007

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Beschäftigungsförderung und Einkommenssicherung im Niedriglohnbereich : Wege und Irrwege

Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007

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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed : long-term evidence and effect heterogeneity

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2010

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed accounted for nearly 17% of the total spending on ALMP in 2004....

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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...

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Marginal employment, unemployment duration and job match quality

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2012

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up "marginal employment" up to a threshold without any deduction from their benefits. Marginal employment can be considered as a wage subsidy as it lowers labour costs for firms owing to...

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A wealth tax on the rich to bring down public debt? : Revenue and distributional effects of a capital levy

Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2011

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...

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Fifty shades of state : quantifying housing market regulations in Germany

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič - 2015

The paper aims at measuring the rental housing market regulations in Germany between 1913 and 2015. Four classes of housing policy are considered: Rent controls, tenant protection, rationing of housing, and fostering of social housing. Based on a thorough analysis of federal and regional...

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Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland : Bestandsaufnahme und Bewertung der mikroökonomischen Evaluationsergebnisse

Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2005

Förderung von Beschäftigung. Die quantitativ wichtigsten Programme der AAMP in Deutschland waren traditionell die Förderung der … Deutschland bewertet. Die Darstellung wird ergänzt durch die Einbeziehung der Ergebnisse einiger internationaler … Evaluationsstudien zu Instrumenten der AAMP, die zunehmend auch in Deutschland Bedeutung erlangen, für die aber hierzulande derzeit noch …

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