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Das Ruhrgebiet hat in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten einen bemerkenswerten Strukturwandel durchlaufen. Stellenweise sind durchaus beachtliche Ansätze zu seiner wirtschaftlichen Revitalisierung erkennbar, es präsentiert sich heute wirtschaftlich vielfältiger als je zuvor. Nichtsdestoweniger sind...
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In Deutschland wird bereits seit einiger Zeit eine lebhafte Debatte um die Einführung von Mindestlöhnen geführt … nicht unmittelbar auf Deutschland übertragbar. Für Deutschland selbst existieren an wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten bislang nur … vorliegende Arbeit ergänzt die bisherigen Erkenntnisse zu Mindestlöhnen in Deutschland wesentlich und bringt neue Ergebnisse in …
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Compulsory military service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy and the delayed entry into the civilian labor market reduce the returns to human-capital...
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This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an...
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Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...
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This study analyses employers' support for the introduction of industry-specific minimum wages as a cost-raising strategy in order to deter market entry. Using a unique data set consisting of 800 firms in the German service sector, we find some evidence that high-productivity employers support...
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Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained from a structural labor demand model, the empirical...
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Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and other respondents and whether it varies with the market price of the object under consideration....
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