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Unemployment Durations in West-Germany Before and After the Reform of the Unemployment Compensation System During the 1980s
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2004
This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West- Germany before and after the changes during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis is based on the comprehensive IAB employment subsample...
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Unemployment Duration and the Length of Entitlement Periods for Unemployment Benefits: Do the IAB Employment Subsample and the German Socio-Economic Panel Yield the Same Results?
Biewen, Martin; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
. Estimation of standard duration models indicates that conclusions drawn from the IABS and the GSOEP differ in many cases. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297415
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Reform of Unemployment Compensation in Germany: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis Using Register Data
Lee, Sokbae; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297436
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Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer: Eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997
Zahn, Philipp; Wilke, Ralf A.; Müller, Eva - 2006
unemployment and on unemployment duration of the older unemployed aged 54-56. This group lost a smooth early retirement path via …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298017
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Public Sector Decentralization: Measurement Concepts and Recent International Trends
Stegarescu, Dan - 2004
This paper deals with the problems encountered in defining and measuring the degree of fiscal decentralization. Drawing on a recent analytical framework of the OECD, different measures of fiscal autonomy and revenue decentralization are presented which consider tax-raising powers of sub-central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297396
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Costs, Preferences, and Institutions: An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Government Decentralization
Stegarescu, Dan - 2005
This paper examines the factors determining vertical government structures. An empirical analysis for a panel of OECD countries indicates that apart from preferences, economies of scale, and other factors, institutions explain cross-national differences in the degree of fiscal decentralization....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297446
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Efficient Revenue Sharing and Upper Level Governments: Theory and Application to Germany
Buettner, Thiess; Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Schwager, Robert - 2006
Recent literature has emphasized that redistributive grant systems may tend to internalize fiscal externalities arising from tax competition. This paper further explores the conditions under which local grant systems enforced by the state government will enhance efficiency. A system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297521
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How can a country 'graduate' from procyclical fiscal policy? Evidence from China
Fuest, Clemens; Xing, Jing - 2015
In this study, we analyze the cyclicality of fiscal policies in China during the period 1978-2013. We find that the cyclicality of local government spending in China significantly affects the cyclicality of total government spending. By employing both time-series and province-level panel data,...
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Let's stay in touch - evidence on the role of social learning in local tax interactions
Blesse, Sebastian; Martin, Thorsten - 2015
This paper exploits detailed information on local political and socioeconomic networks and a reform of local fiscal equalization in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) to identify the role of learning in local tax rate interactions. Using this policy change in spatial lag IV regressions, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393272
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Tax and the city: A theory of local tax competition and evidence for Germany
Janeba, Eckhard; Osterloh, Steffen - 2012
Despite the well-developed empirical literature on local tax competition, little is known about the actual spatial structure of inter-municipal competition. Assuming that competition takes place only among neighbours (as in the empirical literature) is at odds with the theoretical approaches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328010