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The empirical relevance of minimum wages for the low-wage sector
Ragnitz, Joachim; Thum, Marcel - In: CESifo Forum 08 (2007) 2, pp. 35-37
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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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Labour market dynamics in Germany : hirings, separations, and job-to-job transitions over the business cycle
Bachmann, Ronald (contributor) - 2005
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of labour market dynamics in Western Ger- many by looking at gross worker flows. To do so, we use a subsample of the registry data collected by the German social security system, the IAB employment sample, for the time period 1975-2001. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323028
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Income taxes and entrepreneurial choice : empirical evidence from Germany
Fossen, Frank M. (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2006
Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced exclusively for entrepreneurs in 1994 and 1999/2000. These tax reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003315579
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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
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Income taxes and entrepreneurial choice : empirical evidence from two German natural experiments
Fossen, Frank M.; Steiner, Viktor - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 36 (2009) 3, pp. 487-513
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003847629
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Financial leverage and corporate taxation : evidence from German corporate tax return data
Dwenger, Nadja; Steiner, Viktor - 2009
corporate tax reform in Germany. The financial leverage is measured by the ratio of long-term debt to total capital. Endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872920
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Self-employment - a way to end unemployment? : empirical evidence from German pseudo-panel data
Glocker, Daniela (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007
basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003411709
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"Marginal employment" and the demand for heterogenous labour : empirical evidence from a multi-factor labour demand model for Germany
Freier, Ronny (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007
marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …’ social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …
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Intergenerational conflict, partisan politics, and public higher education spending : evidence from the German states
Oberndorfer, Ulrich (contributor);  … - 2006
We analyze potential effects of demographic change and political constellations on higher education spending. In our panel analysis of west German states (Laender) for the period 1985 to 2002 we find empirical evidence for the hypothesis of a negative relationship between demographic aging and...
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