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This paper analyses the economic impact of a significant change to the structure of a minimum wage setting policy. The context is the United Kingdom where government mandated an unexpected change in the structure of minimum wages and their setting in 2016 by introducing a new minimum wage –...
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Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...
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In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...
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rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … highest and most equally distributed homeownership in this country as well. The mortgage market in Germany is on the other …
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place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …
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an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …
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positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …
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sustainable energy future. In this paper, we discuss the relevant issues for the case of Germany. We provide a survey of the … equilibrium model for Germany. The model analyzes the impact of introducing carbon constraints with respect to the deployment of … in Germany. For example, under the assumption of a CO2 policy, both energy efficiency and CCS will contribute to climate …
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into the German tax and benefit system. Our simulation results suggest that introducing in-work Tax Credits in Germany … results call for a high degree of caution as far as importingʺ UK-style Tax Credits to Germany is concerned. In-work support …
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. The Mini-Jobʺ reform in Germany - introduced on April 1, 2003 - can be seen in line with these policies, exempting labour …
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