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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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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...

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Steady-state labor supply elasticities : a survey

Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - 2013

Previous reviews of static labor supply estimations concentrate mainly on the evidence from the 1980s and 1990s, Anglo-Saxon countries and early generations of labor supply modeling. This paper provides a fresh characterization of steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe and the...

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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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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution : a review of the literature

Stichnoth, Holger; Van der Straeten, Karine - 2009

We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...

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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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Hidden champions - how young and small technology-oriented firms can attain high export-sales ratios

Fryges, Helmut (contributor) - 2006

Determinants of a firm's export-sales ratio (degree of internationalisation) are frequently discussed in the literature related to individual firms' export activities. Stylised facts show a positive relationship between firm size and firm age on the one hand and the firm's export-sales ratio on...

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