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Education and lifetime income during demographic transition
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2013
The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation, featuring dynamic complementarities in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311884
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Education and lifetime income during demographic transition
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation, featuring dynamic complementarities in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985670
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The Globalization of Tax Policy: What German Politicians Believe
Heinemann, Friedrich; Janeba, Eckhard - 2007
The process of globalization has an important impact on national tax policies. Most of the literature on taxation of capital in open economies does not focus directly on the political decision making process and assumes that the desired tax policy is responding to objective underlying tradeoffs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297947
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Transparency and policy competition: Experimental evidence from German citizens and politicians
Blesse, Sebastian; Lergetporer, Philipp; Nover, Justus; … - 2023
A lack of transparency about policy performance can pose a major obstacle to welfare-enhancing policy competition across jurisdictions. In parallel surveys with German citizens and state parliamentarians, we document that both groups misperceive the performance of their state's education system....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000466
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Exposure to television and individual beliefs: Evidence from a natural experiment
Hennighausen, Tanja - 2012
Does the information provided by mass media have the power to persistently affect individual beliefs about the drivers … individual beliefs and attitudes in the late 1980s, longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel is used to test the … persistence of the television effect on individual beliefs during the 1990s. The empirical findings indicate that Western …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310891
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Exposure to television and individual beliefs: Evidence from a natural experiment
Hennighausen, Tanja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
Does the information provided by mass media have the power to persistently affect individual beliefs about the drivers … individual beliefs and attitudes in the late 1980s, longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel is used to test the … persistence of the television effect on individual beliefs during the 1990s. The empirical findings indicate that Western …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957728
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The Globalization of Tax Policy: What German Politicians Believe
Heinemann, Friedrich; Janeba, Eckhard - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
The process of globalization has an important impact on national tax policies. Most of the literature on taxation of capital in open economies does not focus directly on the political decision making process and assumes that the desired tax policy is responding to objective underlying tradeoffs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098328
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A Simulation Method to Measure the Tax Burden on Highly Skilled Manpower
Elschner, Christina; Schwager, Robert - 2004
A model is presented for simulating the tax burden on highly skilled manpower. The effective average tax rate, defined as the relative wedge between total remuneration and disposable income, is computed. Income and payroll taxes and social security contributions not yielding an equivalent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297384
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Empirical macromodels under test: a comparative simulation study of the employment effects of a revenue neutral cut in social security contributions
Buscher, Herbert S.; Buslei, Hermann; Göggelmann, Klaus; … - 1998
In the paper we simulate a revenue-neutral cut in the social security contribution rate using five different types of macro- / microeconomic models, namely two models based on time-series data where the labour market is modelled basically demand oriented, two models of the class of computable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297599
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Employment and Wage Effects of Social Security Financing: An Empirical Analysis of the West German Experience and some Policy Simulations
Steiner, Viktor - 1996
This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un?)employment and wage effects of social security financing undertaken by the OECD Jobs Study. Based on a simple macroeconometric model of the labour market, I investigate whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298000