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Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement - Empirical Evidence from Switzerland and Germany
Hanel, Barbara - 2010
natürliche Experimente ausgewertet, die sich aus Reformen der Alterssicherungssysteme in Deutschland und der Schweiz ergeben …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451168
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The effects of technical and organizational change on labor markets
Gärtner, Dennis - 2001
A new strand of literature has recently sought to investigate possible links between technological changes, observed modifications to firms' organizational structure and the evolution of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers. After a brief overview of such approaches, this essay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471673
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Economic internationalisation and the distribution of income : a comparison of the cases of Germany and the U.S.
Wacker, Ulrich - 2002
This study compares the effects of economic internationalisation on the functional distribution of labour income in the U.S.and Germany. The benchmark for assessing the empirical analyses theoretically is the general equilibrium framework ofinternational trade theory. Focusing on general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471731
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The Developmental Relevance of Tariff Rate Quotas as a Market Access Instrument: An Analysis of Swiss Agricultural Imports
Khorana, Sangeeta - 2008
relevance of TRQs and discusses how the various methods TRQ administration methods influence market access in Switzerland for … agricultural products from developing countries. The findings show that existing TRQ management in Switzerland is complicated and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443356
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The Swiss disease: Facts and artefacts. A reply to Kehoe and Prescott
Abrahamsen, Y; Aeppli, R; Atukeren, E; Graff, M; Muller, C - 2005
Economic Dynamics 5(1), 1-18] that Switzerland and New Zealand experienced "great depressions" in the last two decades. We … and Switzerland turns out to be largely a statistical artefact and Kehoe and Prescott's conditions for a "great depression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448758
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Die steuerliche Behandlung der Gewährung von Aktienoptionen an Arbeitnehmer bei grenzüberschreitenden Sachverhalten : dargestellt anhand der Länder Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich...
Walter, Michaela - 2006
unterschiedlichen Rechtslagen zur Besteuerung von Aktienoptionen beim Begünstigten in den betrachteten Ländern (Deutschland, Schweiz …, Österreich und Belgien) dargestellt. Die Besteuerung in der Schweiz, Österreich und Belgien erweist sich im Fall der … in der Schweiz, in Österreich und in Belgien kann generell für die Besteuerung von Aktienoptionen bei …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009433685
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Impact of 2001 Building Technology, state and community programs on United States employment and wage income
MJ Scott; DJ Hostick; DB Elliott - 2008
The Department of Energy Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs (BTS) is interested in assessing the potential economic impacts of its portfolio of programs on national employment and income. A special purpose version of the IMPLAN input-output model allied In Build is used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436454
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A structural analysis of natural gas consumption by income class from 1987 to 1993
Poyer, D.A. - 2009
This study had two major objectives: (1) assess and compare changes in natural gas consumption between 1987 and 1993 by income group and (2) assess the potential influence of energy policy on observed changes in natural gas consumption over time and across income groups. This analysis used U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437345
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Health, endogenous time preference, and inequality : a political economy perspective
Lahiri, Radhika; Richardson, Elizabeth - 2009
We study an overlapping-generations model in which agents' mortality risks, and consequently impatience, are endogenously determined by private and public investment in health care. Revenues allocated for public health care arc determined by a voting process. We find that the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438171
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Income inequality and health: importance of a cross-country perspective
Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; … - 2010
This paper uses a unique dataset-containing information collected in 2006 on individuals aged 40-79 in 21 countries throughout the world to examine whether individual income, relative income in a reference group, and income inequality are related to health status across middle/low and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441405