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German male income volatility 1984 to 2008

Bartels, Charlotte; Bönke, Timm - 2010

. We find evidence that the overall inequality of earnings in Germany has been rising throughout the period due to both …

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Charitable giving in the German welfare state : fiscal incentives and crowding out

Bönke, Timm; Massarrat-Mashhadi, Nima; Sielaff, Christian - 2010

Governmental activities in welfare states influence private charitable giving predominantly in two ways: (1) government spending on the provision of public goods may cause crowding out of private charitable contributions; and (2) tax incentives may boost private charitable giving. For a rich...

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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records

Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015

This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...

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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2014

by the Italian Embassy in Germany. In line with previous studies, we confirm substantial inequality of educational …

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Local business taxation and competition for capital : the choice of the tax rate

Büttner, Thiess - 1998

in West Germany's districts. The results indicate that collection rates are set in response to the fiscal decisions of …

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Central wage bargaining and local wage flexibility: evidence from the entire wage distribution

Büttner, Thiess; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 1998

We argue that in labor markets with central wage bargaining wage flexibility varies systematically across the wage distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages negotiated under central wage bargaining affects the...

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Local business taxation and competition for capital: the choice of the tax rate

Büttner, Thiess - 1998

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Public sector centralization and productivity growth : reviewing the German experience

Behnisch, Alexej; Büttner, Thiess; Stegarescu, Dan - 2002

The paper examines the role of the vertical structure of the public sector for economic growth in Germany in a long …

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Charitable giving and its persistent and transitory reactions to changes in tax incentives : evidence from the German taxpayer panel

Bönke, Timm; Werdt, Clive - 2015

We estimate the elasticity of charitable giving with respect to price and income changes using a rich panel of income tax returns covering the period 2001 to 2006. Employing censored quantile regression and exploiting the panel structure, the advantage of our analysis is twofold: First, we...

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Regional stabilization by fiscal equalization? : Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence from Germany

Büttner, Thiess - 1999

actually favors stabilization. In an empirical analysis for Germany, the paper adds support for the finding of significant … regional stabilization by fiscal flows. The results indicate that about 17 % of GDP variation across West Germany's states has … been removed by fiscal flows during the last two decades. Thus, in Germany where the fiscal federalism is criticised for …

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