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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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German Works Councils Old and New: Incidence, Coverage and Determinants

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002

Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …

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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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