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This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating fiscal effects, labor market outcomes as well as...
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. Further simulations highlight the importance of increased savings preferences in Germany to explain the latter. …
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This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture – the grain invasion from the Americas – in Prussia during the first globalization (1871-1913). We show that this shock accelerated the structural change in the Prussian economy through migration of...
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To assess the influence of nonstandard employment for the labor market participation of different demographic groups, we provide detailed descriptions of the development of atypical employment in comparison to standard employment, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In...
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their jobs, had changed their occupations and industries, and had moved to West Germany. We partially close the gap in the … data by linking the "Integrated Employment Biographies" - that start in 1992 for East Germany - with the GDR's "Data Fund …
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less and have to compete with vocationally trained labor market entrants in a similar field of study? Focusing on Germany …
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This paper uses micro data to analyze the wage structures in East Germany and West Germany before and after unification …. In 1988, the wage distribution in East Germany was much more compressed than in West Germany or in the U.S. Since the … collapse of Communism and unification with West Germany, however, the wage structure in eastern Germany has changed …
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Although explanations of the persistence of high unemployment in Germany, in particular long-term unemployment, have …-Economic Panel for West Germany covering the period 1983 to 1992. The focus of the study is on the importance of "negative duration …
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