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We analyze the effects of three alternative proposals to reform the taxation of families relative to the current German system of joint taxation of couples and child allowances: a French-type family splitting and two full family splitting proposals. The empirical analysis of the effects of these...
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with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. -- Marginal employment ; social …
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effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …
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Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct 'institutional regimes', we estimate the short …
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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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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 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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-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … typically assumed by contributors to recent discussions on the potential labour market effects of welfare reforms in Germany …
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Germany1, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long?term unemployment … level of long?term unemployment in Germany relative to the United States? …
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We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …
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