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Good Bye Lenin (or Not?) : The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009

Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries. In this paper, we test whether there exists a feedback process of the economic regime on individual preferences. We exploit the quot;experimentquot; of German separation and...

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Young and Out in Germany : On the Youths' Chances of Labor Market Entrance in Germany

Franz, Wolfgang; Inkmann, Joachim; Pohlmeier, Winfried; … - 2021

This paper deals with the labor market entrance of young people in the Federal Republic" of Germany. The main focus is … on failures during this stage. First, an overview of the youth" labor market in Germany is given. Then, the transition …

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German and American Wage and Price Dynamics : Differences and Common Thenes

Franz, Wolfgang; Gordon, Robert J. - 2021

The evolution of unemployment in West Germany and the U. S. stands in sharp contrast, with German unemployment much … big difference berween the two countries is that there is no feedback from wages to prices in Germany, and so high … unemployment does not put downward pressure on the inflation rate. During the 19705 and 19805 in Germany there emerged a growing …

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The Duration of Youth Unemployment in West Germany : Some Theoretical Considerations

Franz, Wolfgang - 2021

This paper presents a theoretical model dealing with the duration of youth unemployment in West Germany. Duration can …

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The Reservation Wage of Unemployed Persons in the Federal Republic of Germany : Theory and Empirical Tests

Franz, Wolfgang - 2021

This study examines the determinants of the reservation wage of unemployed persons in the Federal Republic of Germany …

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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. Versus Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...

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Regulation Versus Taxation

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010

We study which policy tool and at what level a majority chooses in order to reduce activities with negative externalities. We consider three instruments: a rule, that sets an upper limit to the activity which produces the negative externality, a quota that forces a proportional reduction of the...

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The Welfare State and Competitiveness

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010

In all modern industrial countries, redistributive expenditures are a larger component of the government budget than consumption of goods and services. In this paper, we use a general equilibrium, two- country model with exportables, importables and nontradables to study redistribution across...

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Partisan Cycles in Congressional Elections and the Macroeconomy

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

The post-war United States exhibits two rather strong politico-economic regularities. The political regularity is that the party of the President has always lost votes in aid-term Congressional elections, relative to its Congressional vote in the previous elections; the economic regularity is...

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Nation-Building, Nationalism and Wars

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2017

The increase in army size observed in early modern times changed the way states conducted wars. Starting in the late 18th century, states switched from mercenaries to a mass army by conscription. In order for the population to accept to fight and endure war, the government elites began to...

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