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Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey´s optimal criterion by taxing less the moreelastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between menand women are taken as exogenous and primitive...
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Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable acrosscountries. In this paper, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison ofelasticities, while netting out possible differences due to methods, data selection and theperiod of investigation....
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die Frage im Raum, ob Mindestlöhnein Deutschland notwendig sind. DieseExpertise resümiert bisherige Erfahrungen … mitKombilöhnen in Deutschland – einschließlich derFrage, welche Kombinationsmöglichkeiten mitMindestlöhnen bestehen. Dabei werden …
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We exploit the exogenous change in marginal tax rates created by the Russian flat tax reformof 2001 to identify the effect of taxes on labor supply of males and females. We apply theweighted difference-in-difference regression approach and instrumental variables to the laborsupply function...
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We show that, contrary to widespread belief, low-pay workers do not generally prefer that theminimum wage rate be increased until the labor demand is unitary elastic...
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Between the years 1996 and 2003, a series of amendments were made to the Tax ReformAct of 1986 (TRA86) that gradually increased the tax credit for health insurance purchases bythe self-employed from 25 to 100 percent. We study how these changes in the tax code haveinfluenced the likelihood that...
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Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining … structure of wages. Ceteris paribus, a higher share of employees in a firm covered by industry-wide or firm-level contracts is … associated with higher wages. Yet, individual bargaining coverage in a covered firm shows a negative impact both on the wage …
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barrierefreien Tourismusfür Alle in Deutschland“, um eine erste Erfolgskontrollezum Stand des barrierefreien Tourismus inDeutschland …
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Szenarien für Deutschland,die ein Team von Klaus Bartsch Econometrics imAuftrag der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung durchgeführthat. Es … Fortschrittübernimmt.Das „Modell für ein soziales Deutschland“simuliert eine Reihe interdependenter und... …
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Alle wollen eine bessere Nährwert-Kennzeichnung.Darüber gibt es keinerlei Dissens. Auch dieLebensmittelindustrie sieht das Unwohlsein derVerbraucher und ist bemüht, das Vertrauen derKonsumenten in Lebensmittelprodukte zurückzugewinnen.Der Teufel steckt im Detail. Als...
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