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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
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In this paper we provide empirical evidence on the wage incidence of the German business tax, which is set at the municipal level. For our analysis, we use very rich administrative linked employer-employee panel data, covering 11 years, and link it to data on the business tax rates of about...
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In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and … especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a …
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This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings. The main hypothesis is that the amount of time spent...
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demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …
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In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly … ; household structure ; SOEP ; Germany …
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In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system. The aim of … this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany with its typical Conservative welfare state regime. For … to implement the financing systems of other European countries in Germany (policy swap). The introduction of a Liberal …
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In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly … distribution ; demography ; household size ; decomposition ; Germany …
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