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The papers in this issue were presented at the CESifo Conference 'Ten Years After: German Unification Revisited' : Berlin, 9 - 10 November 1999
Sinn, Hans-Werner (contributor);  … - Conference Ten Years After: German Unification … - 2000
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Works Councils and Separations: Voice, Monopoly, and Insurance Effects
Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2009
Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is associated with a lower separation rate to employment, in particular for men and workers with low tenure. While works council monopoly effects show up in all specifications, clear voice...
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Earlier or Later: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Bringing Forward an Already Announced Tax Reform
Honerkamp, Josef; Moog, Stefan; Raffelhüschen, Bernd - 2004
The German Income Tax Reform 2000, which announced a reduction in income tax rates to be implemented in a series of three stages, was welcomed by the public as a step towards unleashing lurking growth potentials. Nonetheless, in the course of the year 2001 a dispute arose, centering around the...
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Social Health Insurance: the major driver of unsustainable fiscal policy?
Hagist, Christian; Klusen, Norbert; Plate, Andreas; … - 2005
During the next decades the populations of most developed countries will grow older as a result of the low level of birth rates since the 1970s and/or the continuously increasing life expectancy. We show within a Generational Accounting framework how unsustainable the public finances of France,...
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Does Worksharing Work? Some Empirical Evidence from the IAB Panel
Simmons, R.; Schank, Thorsten; Andrews, Martyn J. - 2004
Recent policy debate in Europe suggests that a shorter workweek will lead to more jobs (worksharing). We derive and estimate a model where the firm employs two types of worker, some working overtime, the rest standard hours. Worksharing is not always a prediction of the theory. Using German...
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Exporting firms do not pay higher wages, ceteris paribus : First evidence from linked employer-employee data
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004
von kombinierten Firmen-Beschäftigten-Daten aus Deutschland um zu zeigen, dass diese Lohnzuschläge verschwinden, wenn die …
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Practical estimation methods for linked employer-employee data
Upward, Richard; Schank, Thorsten; J. Andrews, Martyn - 2005
mit einem kombinierten Firmen-Beschäftigtendatensatz (LIAB) aus Deutschland veranschaulicht. Es gibt jedoch eine …
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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2005
gibt, untersuchen wir, ob dies auch in dem unterschiedlichen institutionellen Umfeld in Deutschland der Fall ist, wo statt …
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Skill-biased technological change, international trade and the wage structure
Kölling, Arnd; Schank, Thorsten - 2002
In den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten hat sich die Beschäftigtenstruktur in Deutschland zuungunsten der Un- und Angelernten … Betriebsdaten zusammengefügten Datensatzes, für West-Deutschland (1994-1997) untersucht. Schätzungen der bedingten Arbeitsnachfrage …
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Productivity, investment in ICT and market experimentation: micro evidence from Germany und the US
Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron; Schank, Thorsten - 2003
Kenngrößen wie der Produktivität, der Qualifikationsstruktur und den Löhnen, wobei Mikrodaten für die USA und Deutschland … anhand der Streuung der Produktivität und anderen betrieblichen Entscheidungsvariablen - als in Deutschland. Dies zeigt sich … durchschnittlichen Einfluss der Einführung neuer Technologien auf die Produktivität und die Löhne in den USA als in Deutschland. …
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