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Short-run fertility effects of parental leave benefits : evidence from a structural model

Stichnoth, Holger - 2014

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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How do employment tax credits work? : an analysis of the German inheritance tax

Franke, Benedikt; Simons, Dirk; Voeller, Dennis - 2014

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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Does innovation stimulate employment? : a firm-level analysis using comparable micro-data from four uropean countries

Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Mairesse, … - 2008

innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …

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Is Portugal really so arteriosclerotic? : results from a cross-country analysis of labor adjustment

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 1999

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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Employment of mothers after childbirth : French-German comparison

Lauer, Charlotte; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2003

This paper compares the work attachment of French and German women after childbirth. Both fertility and employment of …

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International stock return predictability under model uncertainty

Schrimpf, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

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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Modeling asset returns : a comparison of theoretical and empirical models

Lüders, Erik (contributor); Schröder, Michael (contributor) - 2004 - Rev. version

large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH …

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The effective average tax burden in the European Union and the USA : a computer-based calculation and comparison with the model of the European tax analyzer

Jacobs, Otto H.; Spengel, Christoph - 1999

In this paper we present a computer-based model (so-called European Tax Analyzer) for the international computation and comparison of company tax burdens. The methodology follows the forward-looking concepts for the measurement of effective average tax rates (EATR) on the basis of a model-firm....

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International spillovers and feedback : modelling in a disequilibrium framework

Winker, Peter; Beck, Martin - 2000

German unification hit the West German economy in a prosperous and appeared as a huge demand shock at least for the first few quarters. This combination resulted in a major increase of imports from the main trading partners of West Germany, which may have helped to cushion recessionary trends...

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A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...

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