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Revenue autonomy preference in German state parliaments
Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor) - 2013
Fiscal federalism in Germany is characterized by lacking sub-national tax autonomy and intensive fiscal equalization. Due to a sunset clause, the current equalization system has to be renegotiated by the year 2019. Against this backdrop, this contribution studies the reform preferences of...
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How can a country ‘graduate’ from procyclical fiscal policy? : evidence from China
Fuest, Clemens; Xing, Jing - 2015
In this study, we analyze the cyclicality of fiscal policies in China during the period 1978-2013. We find that the cyclicality of local government spending in China significantly affects the cyclicality of total government spending. By employing both time-series and province-level panel data,...
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Unemployment durations in West-Germany before and after the reform of the unemployment compensation system during the 1980s
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Reform of unemployment compensation in Germany : a nonparametric bounds analysis using register data
Lee, Sokbae (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2005
duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …
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Unemployment duration and the length of entitlement periods for unemployment benefits : do the IAB employment subsample and the German socio-economic panel yield the same results?
Biewen, Martin (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2005
. Estimation of standard duration models indicates that conclusions drawn from the IABS and the GSOEP differ in many cases. While …
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New insights on unemployment duration and post unemployment earnings in Germany : censored box-cox quantile regression at work
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2007
the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box{Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post … unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seem to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment …
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Efficient revenue sharing and upper level governments : theory and application to Germany
Büttner, Thiess (contributor);  … - 2006
Recent literature has emphasized that redistributive grant systems may tend to internalize fiscal externalities arising from tax competition. This paper further explores the conditions under which local grant systems enforced by the state government will enhance efficiency. A system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301132
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Intergovernmental grants and public input provision : theory and evidence from Germany
Hauptmeier, Sebastian (contributor) - 2007
This paper uses a simple model of fiscal competition between local jurisdictions to analyse the impact of intergovernmental grants on the composition of public spending. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of ʺfiscal equalisationʺ coincides with a smaller overall...
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An unemployment insurance scheme for the euro area? : a comparison of different alternatives using micro data
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - 2014
We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed and assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric macroeconomic shocks. Running counterfactual simulations based on micro data for the...
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Vertical income tax externalities and fiscal interdependence : evidence from the US
Esteller-Moré, Alejandro; Solé-Ollé, Albert - 1999
Concurrent taxation is a feature of many federal systems. As a consequence of this fact, the tax policy of one level of government affects the tax base of the other. This paper carries out a theoretical analysis of the interdependent tax-setting decisions of federal and regional governments,...
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