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Industrial change, stability of relative earnings, and substitution of unskilled labor in West-Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Mohr, Robert - 1998
We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular its relation to the relatively rigid earnings structure. We find that the substitution elasticity between unskilled and skilled labor is rather low in most sectors of the economy....
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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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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297774
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Who Gets the Money? The Dynamics of R&D Project Subsidies in Germany
Aschhoff, Birgit - 2008
The question of the allocation of public R&D funding is becoming particularly important when it comes to identifying the effects of state subsidies, in terms of input or output additionality. This analysis goes one important step further than the existing literature by including the time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298027
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Explaining the Employability Gap of Short-term and Long-term Unemployed Persons
Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2008
This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298073
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Taxation and unemployment: an applied general equilibrium approach for Germany
Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Feil, Michael - 2002
This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model for Germany. The model integrates specific labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298083
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The effect of subsidies on R&D investment and success: do subsidy history and size matter?
Aschhoff, Birgit - 2009
This study provides insights into the effects of public R&D grants on R&D input and output of firms from Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298803
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Who Gets the Money? The Dynamics of R&D Project Subsidies in Germany
Aschhoff, Birgit - 2009
This paper looks at which firms receive R&D project grants and how this public support evolves over time by considering in particular firm's previous participation. The question of the allocation of public R&D funding is becoming particularly important when it comes to identifying the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298811
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Structural properties of cooperation networks in Germany: From basic to applied research
Brökel, Tom; Graf, Holger - 2010
industries. The study is based on a new data source on subsidized R&D cooperation in Germany, which is presented in detail and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281619
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Competing internationally: On the importance of R&D for export activity
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Wastyn, Annelies - 2010
Export is an important factor to improve growth and welfare especially for industrialized small, open economies such as … Belgium. Policy may be interested in key variables that can influence export. This paper finds evidence for the importance of … R&D for export activities using Belgian firm-level data. To control for reverse causality, R&D-subsidy variables are …
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