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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel - 2011
markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294700
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Wage mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011
markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286898
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Fiscal policy in action : introducing family tax splitting in Germany ; how would it affect the income distribution, work incentives, and household welfare?
Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: FinanzArchiv : European journal of public finance 64 (2008) 1, pp. 115-142
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003713632
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Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? : a microsimulation study for Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008
an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726086
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Making work pay for the elderly unemployed : evaluating alternative policy reforms for Germany
Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - In: FinanzArchiv : European journal of public finance 64 (2008) 3, pp. 380-402
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003773734
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Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany : How Would It Affect the Income Distribution and Work Incentives?
Steiner, Viktor (contributor);  … - 2006
We analyze the effects of three alternative proposals to reform the taxation of families relative to the current German system of joint taxation of couples and child allowances: a French-type family splitting and two full family splitting proposals. The empirical analysis of the effects of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003353662
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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany
Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - In: Applied economics 38 (2006) 10, pp. 1135-1152
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003336895
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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits : the causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects. -- Female labor supply ; fertility ; child subsidy ; parents money
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808549
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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits : the causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We study the labor supply effects of a major change in child-subsidy policy in Germany in 2007 designed to both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811818
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Explaining the East German productivity gap : the role of human capital
Ragnitz, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
The paper concentrates on the question whether the low level of productivity in East Germany can be explained by … capital endowments; in fact, the effective stock on human capital in East Germany is lower than in West Germany when … younger cohorts. This impedes a fast convergence in productivity between East and West Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003414320