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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts : a microsimulation analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824262
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Trade union membership and dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826340
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Let bygones be bygones? : socialist regimes and personalities in Germany
Friehe, Tim; Pannenberg, Markus; Wedow, Michael - 2015
This paper investigates the influence of political regimes on personality, using the separation of Germany into the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299210
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Getting poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305299
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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241628
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Trade union membership and sickness absence : evidence from a sick pay reform
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 33 (2015), pp. 13-25
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437898
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Trade union membership and dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 18 (2011) 6, pp. 810-821
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536959
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A wealth tax on the rich to bring down public debt? : revenue and distributional effects of a capital levy
Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2011
The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269236
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Trade union membership and sickness absence : evidence from a sick pay reform
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2012
In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581979
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The effects of income taxation on severance pay
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 16 (2009) 1, pp. 107-118
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003816589