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Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state … generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a short-term fertility effect of about 4%, which is consistent with … recent quasi-experimental evidence. The fertility effect is strongest for first births and increases with income. We use the …
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Employment tax credit programs have been repeatedly used during economic crises, although their usefulness is empirically contestable. The objective of this paper is to quantify the tax effects of employment tax credit programs. A recent revision of the German inheritance tax law provides an...
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innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …
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Reputation indexes of employment protection have proven popular constructs in studies of the covariation of labor market institutions and macroeconomic outcomes. Portugal occupies an unenviable rank order in such measures of the stringency of employment protection. We critique this reputation in...
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This paper compares the work attachment of French and German women after childbirth. Both fertility and employment of …
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This paper examines return predictability when the investor is uncertain about the right state variables. A novel feature of the model averaging approach used in this paper is to account for finite-sample bias of the coefficients in the predictive regressions. Drawing on an extensive...
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large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH …
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