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Heterogeneous effects of credit constraints on SMEs' employment : evidence from the Great Recession

Cornille, David; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2018

This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks' financial health following the 2008 crisis is used as an...

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The benefits of linking CGE and microsimulation models : evidence from a flat tax analysis

Peichl, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

modelling flat tax reform proposals for Germany. Taking the general equilibrium effects into account has important implications …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759271

'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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From bottom to top : the entire distribution of market income in Germany, 1992 - 2001

Bach, Stefan (contributor); Corneo, Giacomo (contributor); … - 2007

We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period 1992 to 2001 on the basis of … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

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Is a flat tax feasible in a grown-up welfare state?

Fuest, Clemens (contributor); Peichl, Andreas (contributor); … - 2007

reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of Germany. We find that a flat rate tax with a low tax rate and a low basic …

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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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Lower and upper bounds of unfair inequality : theory and evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2011

by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant and robust differences between lower …

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Does institutional diversity account for pay rules in Germany and Belgium?

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011

) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III …) higher (lower) impact of educational credentials (work-post tenure) on earnings in Germany. We provide survey-based empirical … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same "variety of capitalism", we provide evidence that small …

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Do higher corporate taxes reduce wages?

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2015

This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities. Administrative linked employer-employee data allows estimating heterogeneous worker and firm effects. We set up a general theoretical framework showing that corporate taxes can have a...

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