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several tax reforms that were implemented in Germany between 2001 and 2008. Our baseline estimates indicate an overall ETI of …
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This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer-employee dataset LIAB. IZAΨMOD consists of three components:...
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Germany plays a pioneering role in replacing conventional power plants with renewable energy sources. While this is …
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exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly …
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Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …
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The unification of Germany is one of the most wrenching and dramatic transitions in economic history. A policy issue of …
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We analyze the sources of the rise in the levels of self-employment in Germany since reunification by applying the non …-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique. This analysis is performed separately for East and West Germany in order to account …
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What has happened to the German economic miracle? Rebuilding from the rubble and ruin of two world wars, Germany in the … full employment. Germany (or West Germany, until 1989) returned to its position as the economic powerhouse of Europe and …, unemployment has soared, and the economic unification of eastern and western Germany has been mishandled. Europe's largest economy …
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What has happened to the German economic miracle? Rebuilding from the rubble and ruin of two world wars, Germany in the … full employment. Germany (or West Germany, until 1989) returned to its position as the economic powerhouse of Europe and …, unemployment has soared, and the economic unification of eastern and western Germany has been mishandled. Europe's largest economy …
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The paper discusses the options for a reform of the German pension system using a model developed at CES for the German Council of economic advisors to the Federal Ministry of Economics and Research. It is argued that the German pay-as-you-go-system is efficient in a present value sense but will...
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