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Marginal employment': stepping stone or dead end? Evaluating the German experience
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
Marginal employment', i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade. Using a large newly available panel data set and statistical matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal...
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ZEW Corporate Taxation Microsimulation Model (ZEW TaxCoMM)
Reister, Timo; Spengel, Christoph; Finke, Katharina; … - 2008
Current political discussions in Germany and other European countries illustrate the importance accorded to revenue and distribution effects of tax reforms. Whereas widely recognized concepts of effective tax measures can provide important insights into the incentives of taxation they do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793921
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Impact of tax rate cut cum base broadening reforms on heterogeneous firms : learning from the German tax reform 2008
Finke, Katharina; Heckemeyer, Jost H.; Reister, Timo; … - 2010
The German corporate tax reform of 2008 has brought about important cuts in corporate tax rates, which were at the same time accompanied by significant changes in the determination of the tax base for both major German corporate taxes - corporate income tax and trade tax. The reform followed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969889
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ZEW Corporate Taxation Microsimulation Model (ZEW TaxCoMM)
Reister, Timo; Spengel, Christoph; Finke, Katharina; … - 2009
Current political discussions in Germany and other European countries illustrate the importance accorded to revenue and distribution effects of tax reforms. Whereas widely recognized concepts of effective tax measures can provide important insights into the incentives of taxation they do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873302
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Impact of tax rate cut cum base broadening reforms on heterogeneous firms : learning from the German tax reform 2008
Finke, Katharina; Heckemeyer, Jost H.; Reister, Timo; … - 2011 - This version: March 2011
The German corporate tax reform of 2008 has brought about important cuts in corporate tax rates, which were at the same time accompanied by significant changes in the determination of the tax base for both major German corporate taxes - corporate income tax and trade tax. The reform followed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152555
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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations
Steiner, Viktor - 1996
This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security financing undertaken by the OECD Jobs Study. Based on a simple macroeconometric model of the labour market, I investigate whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439693
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Employment effects of publicly financed training programs : the East German experience
Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1997
We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data. We account for...
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The effective average tax burden in the European Union and the USA : a computer-based calculation and comparison with the model of the European tax analyzer
Jacobs, Otto H.; Spengel, Christoph - 1999
In this paper we present a computer-based model (so-called European Tax Analyzer) for the international computation and comparison of company tax burdens. The methodology follows the forward-looking concepts for the measurement of effective average tax rates (EATR) on the basis of a model-firm....
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Effective marginal tax rates for US investors in Germany and Europe : an analysis of recent tax reforms in Germany
Spengel, Christoph - 1999
In this paper the impact of the corporate tax systems of the 15 EU-member states on the investment and the financing decision of an US multinational corporation is analysed. The calculation of the resulting effective marginal tax rates (EMTR) closely follow the model of King and Fullerton. There...
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Effektive Steuerbelastung der grenzüberschreitenden Geschäftstätigkeit nach den Vorschlägen zur Reform der Unternehmensbesteuerung
Spengel, Christoph - 2000
Das Steuersenkungsgesetz stellt das größte Reformvorhaben auf dem Gebiet der direkten Steuern in Deutschland seit der … internationalen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Unternehmen am Standort Deutschland, Stärkung der Attraktivität des Standorts Deutschland für … (King-Fullerton-Ansatz) für Deutschland und die übrigen EU-Mitgliedstaaten brachte folgende Ergebnisse. Die Reform erfüllt …
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