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A challenge for the G20: Globally stipulated debt brakes and transnational independent fiscal supervisory councils

Dolls, Mathias; Peichl, Andreas; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

Debt-to-GDP ratios have grown to unprecedented levels in many industrialized economies. This requires disciplined consolidation efforts which are, however, supposed to come now at the wrong time with the economic recovery being fragile. Against this background, we call for a global debt brake...

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Demografie und Ungleichheit: der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2009

In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly …

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Does size matter? The impact of changes in household structure on income distribution in Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly …

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

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Multidimensional well-being at the top: Evidence for Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 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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German Public Finances Through the Financial Crisis

Blömer, Maximilian - 2018

The German experience of the crisis was very different compared to those of most other countries in Europe. Germany was … situation and how the crisis unfolded in Germany, before focusing on the situation of public finances. Finally, we analyse the …

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Exporting and Labor Demand : Micro-Level Evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas - 2014

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...

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Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens - 2013

Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...

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Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens - 2016

This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities. Administrative linked employer-employee data allows estimating heterogeneous worker and firm effects. We set up a general theoretical framework showing that corporate taxes can have a...

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Do Savings Increase in Response to Salient Information About Retirement and Expected Pensions?

Dolls, Mathias - 2016

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual letters providing detailed and comprehensible information about the pension system...

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