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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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Are there long-term earnings scars from youth unemployment in Germany?

Möller, Joachim; Umkehrer, Matthias - 2014

We analyze the relationship between early-career unemployment and prime-age earnings with German administrative linked employer-employee data. The careers of more than 720,000 male apprenticeship graduates from the cohorts of 1978 to 1980 are followed over 24 years. On average, early-career...

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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas

Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014

We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control...

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A sequential decomposition of the drop in collective bargaining coverage

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2015

percentage points for females in West, and eight and 14 percentage points, respectively, in East Germany. We find that neither …

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Shifting taxes from labor to consumption : more employment and more inequality

Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2015

distribution of income in Germany. We simulate stepwise increases in the value-added tax (VAT) rate, which are compensated by …

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German public finances through the financial crisis

Blömer, Maximilian (contributor) - 2015

The German experience of the crisis was very different compared to those of most other countries in Europe. Germany was … situation and how the crisis unfolded in Germany, before focusing on the situation of public finances. Finally, we analyse the …

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The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP) and firm statistics for Germany

Bersch, Johannes; Gottschalk, Sandra; Müller, Bettina; … - 2014

) is the most comprehensive micro database of companies in Germany outside the official business register (which is not … in Germany. At the end of 2013, the MUP contained information on 7.7 Mio firms, of which about 3.2 Mio were still active … MUP gives by and large a representative picture of the corporate landscape in Germany. The MUP is a valuable database for …

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The impact of brand use on innovation performance : empirical results for Germany

Crass, Dirk - 2014

The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To achieve this objective most efficiently, firms strengthen their technological capabilities, acquire external knowledge in a number of different ways, and optimize their...

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Which firms use trademarks : and why? ; representative firm-level evidence from Germany

Crass, Dirk - 2014

Trademarking firms are more productive, generate higher profits, and have a better survival rate. Trademarking firms are in one word more successful, which might motivate non-trademarking firms to adopt a trademark strategy. But this seems not to be the case. The proportion of trademarking firms...

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Candidate screening for the recruitment of critical research and development workers : a report and preliminary results with evidence from experimental data from German high-tech f...

Frosch, Katharina; Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015

The report focuses on résumé-based screening strategies for the recruitment of highly qualified research and development (R&D) workers (critical R&D workers) in high-tech firms. We investigate which kinds of professional background, job-related experience, motivations, specific skills, and...

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