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Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems

Kraus, Margit - 2000

This paper evaluates the linkage between social security strategies and redistributive effects in EU social transfer systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by the adoption of different mixes of social security...

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Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und der Schweiz: eine Gegenüberstellung

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 75 (2006) 3, pp. 118-154

Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in der Schweiz wird der deutschen gegenübergestellt. Beide Länder haben viele … Gemeinsamkeiten bezüglich Zielsetzung, Instrumenten und institutionellen Reformen von aktiver Arbeitsmarktpolitik. In der Schweiz … Deutschland wird ein ähnliches System gegenwärtig entwickelt. Für die Evaluation aktiver Arbeitsmarktpolitik und die Prognosen …

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Does Part-Time and Intermittent Work during Early Motherhood Lead to Regular Work Later? A comparison of Labor Behavior of Mothers with Young Children in Germany, Britain, The Neth...

Gustafsson, Siv S.; Kenjoh, Eiko; Wetzels, Cécile - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 15-23

We use data from Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden to examine whether part-time and intermittent work during early motherhood leads to regular full-time work later. We find that in Sweden, by the time the first child is four years old 80 percent of mothers are working full-time...

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Business Cycles in EU Member States

Buscher, Herbert S. - 1999

The paper investigates the business cycle relationships between the EU-15, the EU-11, as well as the EU-core countries for the period 1971 to 1997. Emphasis is put on the question whether there is a synchronization in the national business cycles or not. Using One-way- and Twoway-Anova...

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Search Patterns and Absorptive Capacity: A Comparison of Low- and High-Technology Firms from Thirteen European Countries

Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2007

Searching for externally available knowledge has been characterised as a vital part of the innovation process. Previous research has, however, almost exclusively focused on hightechnology environments, largely ignoring the substantial low- and medium-technology sectors of modern economies. We...

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Latin versus European Power: A Tale of Two Market Reforms

Mennel, Tim; Viecens, Maria Fernanda - 2007

This paper compares electricity market reforms in the European Union with reforms in Chile and Brazil. The paradigm of competitive market structures for the electricity sector, as developed in the economics literature, is outlined: competitive markets in generation and retailing and an...

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The Determinants of Capital Structure: Some Evidence from Banks

Heider, Florian; Gropp, Reint E. - 2008

This paper documents that standard cross-sectional determinants of firm leverage also apply to the capital structure of large banks in the United States and Europe. We find a remarkable consistency in sign, significance and economic magnitude. Like non-financial firms, banks appear to have...

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A Comparison Between the Fed and the ECB: Taylor Rules

Ullrich, Katrin - 2003

This paper analyzes whether Taylor-type policy rules can be used to describe the behavior of the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank from the beginning of 1999 until mid 2002. Since there was no common monetary policy for the Euro area before 1999, we examine if the average Central...

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The Impact of R&D Tax Incentives on R&D Costs and Income Tax Burden

Elschner, Christina; Ernst, Christof - 2008

We analyse R&D tax incentives in a detailed way considering a multi-period setting and economic assumptions which reflect a realistic economic environment. We measure the incentive's impact on the firm's total tax payments and the R&D cost by means of the simulation model European Tax Analyzer....

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Dualisierung von Einkommensteuersystemen: Stand und Perspektiven im internationalen Vergleich

Schratzenstaller, Margit - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 72 (2003) 4, pp. 535-550

Eine Reihe von westeuropäischen Ländern hat seit Mitte der 80er Jahre ihre synthetischen Einkommensteuersysteme hin zu einer so genannten dualen Einkommensteuer reformiert. Auch die meisten mittel- und osteuropäischen Transformationsländer führten gleich mit Beginn der Systemtransformation...

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