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What Makes the Difference between Unsuccessful and Successful Firms in the German Mechanical Engineering Industry?
Merz, Joachim; Niggemann, Hiltrud - 2009
Against a background of rising costs and increasing competition, it is besoming more and more difficult for the small and medium-sized firms of the German mechanical engineering industry to be economically successful. The thesis that rapidly changing markets, products and production processes...
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Who is Working When? - Working Time Arrangments of Self-Employed and Employees : A Microeconometric Analysis of German Time Use Data
Merz, Joachim; Burgert, Derik - 2009
In recent years new patterns of working time have appeared along with an increased flexibility concerning timing of work and the decay of the regular working day. We analyze the timing of working time for both self-employed and employees based on the German time budget study 1991/92. In the...
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Start-Up Success of Freelancers : New Microeconometric Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel
Merz, Joachim - 2009
If certain start-up characteristics will indicate a business success, knowing such characteristics could generate more successful start-ups and more efficient start-up counseling. Our study will contribut e to this by quantifying individual success determinants of freelance start-ups. The data...
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Professions, Entrepreneurs, Employees and the New German Tax (Cut) Reform 2000 - A MICSIM Microsimulation Analysis of Distributional Impacts
Merz, Joachim - 2009
With the tax reform 2000 Germany has seen the implementation of the most ambitious tax reduction programme in its post …
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The Timing of Daily Demand for Goods and Services - Microsimulation Policy Results of an Aging Society, Increasing Labour Market Flexibility and Extended Public Childcare in German...
Merz, Joachim - 2011
society? We concentrate on important and currently discussed developments and policies: the huge shift in Germany …
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The German Pension Reform Up for Discussion - A Microsimulation for the Retirement Arrangement in Germany (AVID-PRO)
Schatz, Christof - 2010
Earlier this year the results of the study ”old-age security in Germany 1996 (AVID 96)“ have been published. This study … year 1996 in Germany (AVID-PRO). For the purpose of this microsimulation model we first raised longitudinal section and …-performance microsimulation model for the present old-age pension-reform-debate in Germany. This performance microsimulation model is able to …
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Income and Distribution Analysis with the Taxpayer-Panel - New Prospects and First Results for Self-Employed, as Freelancers and Entrepeneurs, and Employees as Well as for High Incomes
Merz, Joachim - 2009
-Panel, a panel, which for the first time in Germany follows the individual taxpayers' situations. With these paneldata we are …, Gabriele, Zwick, Markus und Gert G. Wagner (Hrsg.), Fortschritte der informationellen Infrasruktur in Deutschland, will be …
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Time Use Dynamics in Paid Work and Household Activities of Married Women - A Panel Analysis with Household Information and Regional Labour Demand
Merz, Joachim - 2009
The dynamics of multiple time use in paid work and in household activities with housework, child rearing and DIY of married women are analyzed with a two step procedure: the estimation of the participation decision in intertemporal labor force participation strategies (entering, leaving the...
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Equivalence Scales Based on Revealed Preference Consumption Expenditure Microdata - The Case of West Germany Zu Lüneburg
Merz, Joachim - 2009
Germany 1983. It is a part of a joint US and German research project comparing equivalence scales with consistent methods and … Germany based on actual available individual consumption expenditure data shows a variety of interesting results with regard …
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Market and Non-Market Labor Supply and Recent German Tax Reform Impacts - Behavioral Response in a Combined Dynamic and Static Microsimulation Model
Merz, Joachim - 2009
representative for the Federal Republic of Germany …
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