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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed : Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
Steiner, Viktor - 2006
effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779051
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Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction
Bossler, Mario - 2020
We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840443
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Wage Cyclicality Under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations
Gartner, Hermann - 2010
Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137244
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High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms : Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias
Andrews, Martyn J. - 2012
Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104657
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More Hours, More Jobs? The Employment Effects of Longer Working Hours
Andrews, Martyn J. - 2012
Increases in standard hours have been a contentious policy issue in Germany. Whilst this might directly lead to a … with theory, overtime plants showed a significant positive employment response, whilst for standard-time plants there is no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104667
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Low-Wage Employment Versus Unemployment : Which One Provides Better Prospects for Women?
Mosthaf, Alexander - 2009
This study analyzes state dependence in low-wage employment of western German women using GSOEP data, 2000-2006. We estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and find that having a low-wage job increases the probability of being low-paid and decreases the chances of being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153302
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Self-Employment : Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data
Glocker, Daniela - 2007
basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777826
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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice : Empirical Evidence from Germany
Fossen, Frank M. - 2007
Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced exclusively for entrepreneurs in 1994 and 1999-2000. These tax reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778434
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Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education? Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001
Baumgartner, Hans J. - 2007
(BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778539
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Intergenerational Conflict, Partisan Politics, and Public Higher Education Spending : Evidence from the German States
Steiner, Viktor - 2006
of the classical partisan theory that implies higher public expenditures under leftist parties, we find that governments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779062