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In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a simultaneous wage-hours model which takes into account the participation decision. First, our estimates show that the hourly wage rate is strongly a¤ected by the working hours. In...
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Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the accumulation of human capital as well as a depreciation of the human capital stock built up in the past. In this paper, we estimate the return to effective experience, taking into...
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Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I estimate the wage gap between part-time and full-time employees in … Germany and the Netherlands, taking into account individual and job-specific characteristics and treating participation and … differentials between full-time and part-time employees, leads one to suppose that the existing wage gap in Germany may impede women …
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-time and part-time employment of different skill groups of women in the UK and West Germany. The analysis is based on large …
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mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the …
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Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment … level of long-term unemployment in Germany relative to the United States? …
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reformbedingten Wirkungen auf das Arbeitsangebot und die Arbeitsnachfrage. Im vierten Kapitel werden empirische Untersuchungen …
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This paper analyses the effects of a social assistance reform in Germany. In contrast to studies which are based on …
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dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a …
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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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