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In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly …
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Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...
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A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany …
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This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany … spite of huge differences in the distribution of education in France and Germany, these countries prove surprisingly similar …
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This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …
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birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …
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inequality measures indicate that Germany's feed-in tariff is mildly regressive. …
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negative income tax in Germany, but current experiments are being conducted, in order to assess how successful incentives could … historical, political and economic context of Germany is evaluated for a possible earned income tax credit, and fledgling tax … credit experiments that are currently being conducted in Germany are discussed. A negative income tax is defined in this …
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particular transfer on poverty. The countries included in this study are Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the …
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poverty for working-age households in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States from the mid-1970s to … whole, the comparative evidence seems more consistent with the view of welfare state supporters. Germany, with its …
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