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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962149
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009425687
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The politicians' wage gap : insights from German members of parliament
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2011
Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230676
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310036
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Do higher corporate taxes reduce wages? : micro evidence from Germany
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013
Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740285
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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration : the case of occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130116
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578852
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578894
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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
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according to workers' origin: the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670643