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Labour market effects of digital matching platforms : experimental evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022
Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...
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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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Business taxation and wages : evidence from individual panel data
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kasten, Tanja; Siemers, Lars - 2012
Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428676
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A structural approach to estimating the effect of taxation on the labor market dynamics of older workers
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2009
We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous accumulation of human capital and intertemporal non-separabilities in preferences. Additionally, the model accounts for the effect of the tax and transfer system on work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003830314
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Measuring richness and poverty : a micro data application to Europe and Germany
Peichl, Andreas (contributor); Schaefer, Thilo (contributor) - 2008
demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …
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Income taxes and entrepreneurial choice : empirical evidence from Germany
Fossen, Frank M. (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2006
Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced exclusively for entrepreneurs in 1994 and 1999/2000. These tax reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003370482
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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 …
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Labor demand response to labor supply incentives: lessons from the German mini-job reform
Galassi, Gabriela - 2021
affect high-earning workers. I explore establishment outcomes around Germany's 2003 Mini-Job Reform, which expanded tax …
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Welfare states, labor markets, social investment and the digital transformation
Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton; Scalise, Gemma - 2020
digitization and artificial intelligence, may still be overblown, intrusive change in the nature of work and employment relations … chapter explores how Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, in terms of the strengths and vulnerabilities of their labour market … to digitization, together with their respective social investment aptitude, are currently preparing their welfare states …
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