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The minimum wage affects them all : evidence on employment spillovers in the roofing sector

Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2012

roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment … wage ; Germany ; capital-labour substitution ; labour-labour substitution ; scale effect …

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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 - Preliminary version

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...

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Employment effects of work sharing : an econometric analysis for West Germany

Steiner, Viktor; Peters, Ralf-Henning - 2000

In this paper we estimate the employment effects of a reduction in weekly normal hours in West German manufacturing on the basis of an econometric models using industry panel data. We distinguish between unskilled, skilled and high-skilled workers and show that labor demand elasticities with...

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Carbon taxes and general joint implementation : an applied general equilibrium analysis for Germany and India

Böhringer, Christoph; Conrad, Klaus; Löschel, Andreas - 2000

Germany has committed itself to reducing its carbon emissions by 25 percent in 2005 as compared to 1990 emission levels … reduction possibilities elsewhere. One concrete option for Germany would be to enter joint implementation with developing … countries such as India where Germany pays emission reduction abroad rather than meeting its reduction target solely by domestic …

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When the minimum wage bites back : quantile treatment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in Germany

Gregory, Terry - 2014

conditional and unconditional distribution of earnings. For Eastern Germany, the results indicate significant real (nominal) wage …

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Reforming social welfare as we know it? : a microsimulation study for Germany

Steiner, Viktor; Jacobebbinghaus, Peter - 2003

-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … typically assumed by contributors to recent discussions on the potential labour market effects of welfare reforms in Germany …

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Not employed 37 hours or employed 41? : A CGE analysis for Germany

Conrad, Klaus (contributor); Koschel, Henrike (contributor); … - 2005

in Germany on the basis of a CGE model using an input-output framework for all sectors of the economy. Our simulation …

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