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What makes the difference between unsuccessful and successful firms in the German mechanical engineering industry? A microsimulation approach using data from the NIFA-Panel

Widmaier, Ulrich; Niggemann, Hiltrud; Merz, Joachim - 1994

Against a background of rising costs and increasing competition, it is becoming 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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Extended income inequality and poverty dynamics of labour market and household activities: A ten years microanalysis with the German socio-economic panel

Merz, Joachim; Kirsten, Dagmar - 1998

Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...

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Professions, entrepreneurs, employees and the new German tax (cut) reform 2000: A MICSIM microsimulation analysis of distributional impacts

Merz, Joachim; Stolze, Henning; Zwick, Markus - 2002

With the tax reform 2000 Germany has seen the implementation of the most ambitious tax reduction programme in its post-war history. In the period from 1998 to 2005, taxpayers will benefit substantially from net tax relief more than DM 100 billions in total. It is expected, that private...

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Two scales, one methodology: Expenditure based equivalence scales for the United States and Germany

Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - 1994

Choosing an appropriate equivalence scale is a prerequisite for comparisons of economic well-being income distribution, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use a country specific equivalence scale (social...

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Equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption expenditure microdata: The case of West Germany

Merz, Joachim; Faik, Jürgen - 1992

-Mikrodaten offenbarter Präferenzen für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1983 vor. Es ist ein Teil eines amerikanisch … Deutschland auf der Basis von aktuell verfügbaren individuellen Konsumausgaben zeigt eine Vielfalt interessanter Resultate …

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Relative inequality and poverty in Germany and the United States using alternative equivalence scales

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994

Mikrodaten von Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten der Luxemburg Income Study (LIS) werden verwendet, um die … Merz et al. (1993) für Deutschland und die Vereinigten Staaten entwickelt wurden. Frühere Studien bestätigend zeigen wir …, daß Ungleichheit und Armut in den Vereinigten Staaten gößer sind als in Deutschland. Alle Personengruppen zusammen …

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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 - 1992

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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De facto anonymised microdata file on income tax statistics 1998

Merz, Joachim; Vorgrimler, Daniel; Zwick, Markus - 2006

Deutschland zum ersten Mal Mikrodaten aus dem Bereich der Finanzstatistik. Die Wissenschaft kann diese Daten nutzen, um politisch …

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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 Germany

Merz, Joachim; Hanglberger, Dominik; Rucha, Rafael - 2011

diskutierte Entwicklungen und Politiken: die enorme Veränderung der demographischen Struktur in Deutschland mit einer alternden …

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Cumulation of cross-section surveys: Evaluation of alternative concepts for the cumulated Continuous Household Budget Surveys (LWR) 1999 until 2003 compared to the Sample Survey of...

Merz, Joachim; Stolze, Henning - 2010

With the development of household budget systems and with regard to the requirements of the European Union with new EU-SILC approaches, the cumulation of cross-section surveys to an integrated information system is recently discussed and required. In particular the reconstruction of household...

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