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Happy taxpayers? Income taxation and well-being

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; … - 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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Dynamics of Labour and Capital Adjustment : A Comparison of Germany and the Netherlands

Polder, Michael; Verick, Sher - 2004

Netherlands should be more responsive to economic changes. On the other hand, there is unlikely to be such a divergence in capital …

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Money Doesn?t Buy Happiness ... Or Does It? : A Reconsideration Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wooden, Mark - 2004

, Hungary and the Netherlands – to provide a reconsideration of the impact of economic wellbeing on happiness. The main …

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How Different Are Immigrants? : A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement

Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2004

population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …

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The Effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on Wage Behaviour

Lauer, Charlotte - 1999

This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....

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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …

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Why Do Firms Recruit Internationally?

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001

The paper studies the demand for foreign graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile high-skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin, skills, and...

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Immigration, integration and the labour market: Turkish immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … and tenured job rate remains large for the Netherlands, while the standardized gap in the job prestige score remains large … for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important for …

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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2007

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...

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The labour market position of Turkish immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands: reason for migration, naturalisation and language proficiency

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany … language proficiency. Third, for the Netherlands we find a positive relation between naturalisation and labour market position … Netherlands, and this may lead to a stronger incentive to naturalise for workers with a temporary contract. …

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