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The Politicians' Wage Gap : Insights from German Members of Parliament

Peichl, Andreas - 2011

Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...

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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 …

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Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn : A Model-Based Approach with Application to Germany 2008-09

Bargain, Olivier - 2010

Germany. We take as a starting point a very detailed administrative matched employer-employee dataset to estimate labor demand …

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Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top : Evidence for Germany

Peichl, Andreas - 2011

This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...

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Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2011

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the "jack-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...

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Multidimensional Affluence : Theory and Applications to Germany and the US

Peichl, Andreas - 2011

-being in Germany and the US in 2007 as well as for the US over the period 1989-2007. We find distinct country differences with … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of …

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Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously : The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009

Hirsch, Boris - 2011

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …

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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith - 2011

by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant and robust differences between lower …

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Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments

Fackler, Daniel - 2012

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …

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Happy Taxpayers? Income Taxation and Well-Being

Akay, Alpaslan - 2012

This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax...

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