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Income Taxation and Household Size : Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off?

baclet, alexandre - 2006

In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …, however not due to the French Family splitting but rather to the different definitions of taxable incomes in both countries …

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Do Parental Networks Pay Off? Linking Children's Labor-Market Outcomes to Their Parents' Friends

Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015

This paper examines whether children are better off if their parents have stronger social networks. Using data on high-school friendships of parents, we analyze whether the number and characteristics of friends affect the labor-market outcomes of children. While parental friendships formed in...

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They are Even Larger! More (on) Puzzling Labor Market Volatilities

Gartner, Hermann - 2009

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...

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Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013

The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, there are concerns about rising inequality in the labour market. In this paper we analyze the...

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Gender Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms : An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2021

This paper investigates women's and men's labor supply to the firm within a structural approach based on a dynamic model of new monopsony. Using methods of survival analysis and a linked employer-employee dataset for Germany, we find that labor supply elasticities are small (0.9-2.4) and that...

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Etiopathology of Europe's Sick Man : Worker Flows in Germany, 1959-2016

Hartung, Benjamin - 2016

We provide new estimates on worker flow rates in and out of unemployment for Germany covering the last six decades. In the 1980s, Germany emerged as the sick man of Europe with a labor market characterized by persistently high unemployment rates. We attribute a substantial fraction of the rise...

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Dimensions of Quality of Life in Germany : Measured by Plain Text Responses in a Representative Survey (SOEP)

Wagner, Gert G. - 2017

This paper demonstrates how quality of life can be measured by plain text in a representative survey, the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Furthermore, the paper shows that problems that are difficult to monitor, especially problems like the state of the European Union, long-term...

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Disentangling the Attractiveness of Telework to Employees : A Factorial Survey Experiment

Moens, Eline; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Van Ootegem, Luc; … - 2022

This research adds to the literature on the attractiveness of telework to employees. To this end, we set up an innovative factorial survey experiment in which a high-quality sample of employees evaluates job offers with diverging characteristics, among which a wide variation in telework...

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ifo Personalleiterbefragung : Kurzarbeit hilft, Entlassungen zu vermeiden ; Ergebnisse der Sonderfrage im ersten Quartal 2010

Dorffmeister, Ludwig - In: Ifo-Schnelldienst 63 (2010) 7, pp. 52

Das ifo Institut befragte im ersten Quartal 2010 Personalleiter von etwa 1 000 Unternehmen zu ihren Planungen hinsichtlich der Kurzarbeit für das laufende Jahr. Die Umfrageergebnisse zeigen, dass bei einem Großteil der Firmen die derzeit kurzarbeitenden Angestellten auch in Zukunft im...

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ifo Konjunkturumfragen Dezember 2018 auf einen Blick : Bescherung für die deutsche Wirtschaft fällt mager aus

Wohlrabe, Klaus - In: Ifo-Schnelldienst 72 (2019) 1, pp. 70-71

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