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Intergenerational conflict, partisan politics, and public higher education spending : evidence from the German states

Oberndorfer, Ulrich (contributor); … - 2006

We analyze potential effects of demographic change and political constellations on higher education spending. In our panel analysis of west German states (Laender) for the period 1985 to 2002 we find empirical evidence for the hypothesis of a negative relationship between demographic aging and...

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'Marginal employment': stepping stone or dead end? : Evaluating the German experience

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

with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. -- Marginal employment ; social …

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Making work pay for the elderly unemployed : evaluating alternative policy reforms for Germany

Haan, Peter (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2006

effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …

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

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …

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Does short-time work save jobs? : a business cycle analysis

Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; … - 2013

component appears to be completely ineffective. In a case study for Germany, we use the rich data available to combine micro …

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The minimum wage affects them all : evidence on employment spillovers in the roofing sector

Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2012

roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment … wage ; Germany ; capital-labour substitution ; labour-labour substitution ; scale effect …

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'Marginal employment' and the demand for heterogenous labour : empirical evidence from a multi-factor labour demand model for Germany

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

marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …’ social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …

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Does more generous student aid increase enrolment rates into higher education? : Evaluating the German student aid reform of 2001

Baumgartner, Hans J. (contributor); … - 2006

(BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount …

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Counteracting unemployment in crises : non-linear effects of short-time work policy

Gehrke, Britta; Hochmuth, Brigitte - 2018

Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...

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The German labor market during the Great Recession : shocks and institutions

Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2018

This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general … equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of …

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