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Labor Force Status Dynamics in the German Labor Market - Individual Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity

Kluve, Jochen - 2009

The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend … unemployment rates is more sensitive to cyclical behavior for certain demographic groups, specifically unskilled and young workers …

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Fiscal Effects of Minimum Wages - An Analysis for Germany

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2008

result in a significant fiscal burden, due to increased expenditures for unemployment benefits and decreased revenues from …

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Do Wages Rise When Corporate Taxes Fall?

aus dem Moore, Nils - 2015

We contribute to the empirical literature on the effective incidence of corporate income taxation by using the German Business Tax Reform of the year 2000 (GBTR 2000) as a natural experiment. Its effect on wages in the manufacturing sector is identified by means of a difference-in-differences...

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Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service – A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2009

We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts’ subsequent labor-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment...

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Beyond GDP and Back : What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?

de New (née Kassenboehmer), Sonja C. - 2011

hard economic indicators as used in the literature, especially by GDP and the unemployment rate. This suggests that the …

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Inflation Forecasting with Inflation Sentiment Indicators

Doehrn, Roland - 2008

In this paper we argue that future inflation in an economy depends on the way people perceive current inflation, their inflation sentiment. We construct some simple measures of inflation sentiment which capture whether price acceleration is shared by many components of the CPI basket. In a...

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Tobacco and Alcohol : Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach

Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - 2008

The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...

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Brother Sun, Sister Moon : The Lunar Cycle, Sunspots and the Frequency of Births

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Heining, Jörg; … - 2010

Based on multivariate linear regression models, we analyze the effect of the lunar cycle and the number of sunspots occurring on a particular day on the number of births using social security data and controlling for a number of other potential confounders. The daily number of births between...

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