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Privacy and data protection in India and Germany : a comparative analysis

Arora, Kim - 2020

This research report offers a comparative analysis of privacy and data protection in Germany and India. It compares the two regimes on four counts. First, it examines how the right to privacy and/or its allied rights have developed in the two countries historically. In this, it explores the...

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The elasticity of taxable income for Germany and its sensitivity to the appropriate model

Werdt, Clive - 2015

This paper provides new empirical insights on the elasticity of taxable income for Germany. Using a rich panel of German income tax return data, the tax reforms of 2004 and 2005 are exploited implementing a new dynamic income model. Showing and discussing potential estimation problems of the...

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What drives tax refund maximization from inter-temporal loss usage? : evidence from the German taxpayer panel

Werdt, Clive - 2015

This paper investigates the inter-temporal loss usage of tax units in Germany. Tax units that experience a loss in a year can offset that loss with positive income from adjacent year to receive a tax refund. Similar to companies, tax units can employ losses as carry-back in the year before the...

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Dismissal protection and long-term sickness absence : first evidence from Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hiesinger, Karolin - 2020

This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness ( six weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small establishments from dismissal protection from five to ten workers. Using administrative data,...

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A proposed data set for analyzing the labor market trajectories of East Germans around reunification

Liepmann, Hannah; Müller, Dana - 2018

Data from German social security notifications and internal procedures of the Federal Employment Agency are an important source for analyzing labor market trajectories. However, for East Germans these data are only fully available from 1992 onwards. As a consequence of German reunification, by...

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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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Energy prices and inflation expectations : evidence from households and firms

Wehrhöfer, Nils - 2023

I investigate how households and firms adjust their inflation expectations when experiencing an increase in their … households increase their inflation expectations when they personally experience an increase in their electricity prices. This … result is inconsistent with full-information rational expectations but can be rationalized by households extrapolating their …

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Analyzing the relationships between survey forecasts for different variables and countries

Paloviita, Maritta; Viren, Matti - 2012

This paper evaluates the quality of survey forecasts, their accuracy and unbiasedness, and their overall consistency. The paper also tries to find out whether the relationships between economic variables are the same in survey data and in the actual data. In other words we analyze whether the...

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Are individual survey expectations internally consistent?

Paloviita, Maritta; Viren, Matti - 2012

This paper studies professional forecasts on a micro level using three alternative data sets. The analysis is mainly based on the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasts for the euro area, but for comparison, Consensus Economics survey and the Survey of Professional Forecasts for the US are also...

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Kernel density estimation for heaped data

Groß, Marcus; Rendtel, Ulrich - 2015

In self-reported data usually a phenomenon called 'heaping' occurs, i.e. survey participants round the values of their income, weight or height to some degree. Additionally, respondents may be more prone to round off or up due to social desirability. By ignoring the heaping process a severe bias...

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