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Culture and tax structures
König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - 2012
We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...
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Wege zur Reduzierung von Lebensmittelabfällen - Pathways to reduce food waste (REFOWAS): Maßnahmen, Bewertungsrahmen und Analysewerkzeuge sowie zukunftsfähige Ansätze für einen nac...
Schmidt, Thomas G.; Baumgardt, Sandra; Blumenthal, Antonia - 2019
Mit den Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) haben sich die Mitglieder der Vereinten Nationen das Ziel gesetzt, die Lebensmittelabfälle entlang der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette bis 2030 zu reduzieren. Ziel des REFOWAS-Projekts war es, den deutschen Agrar- und Ernährungssektor hinsichtlich der...
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Structural models for policy-making: Coping with parametric uncertainty
Eisenhauer, Philipp; Gabler, Janos; Janys, Lena - 2021
The ex-ante evaluation of policies using structural econometric models is based on estimated parameters as a stand-in for the truth. This practice ignores uncertainty in the counterfactual policy predictions of the model. We develop a generic approach that deals with parametric uncertainty using...
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Job ladder, human capital, and the cost of job loss
Audoly, Richard; De Pace, Federica; Fella, Giulio - 2022
High-tenure workers who lose their jobs experience a large and prolonged fall in wages and earnings. The aim of this paper is to understand and quantify the forces behind this empirical regularity. We propose a structural model of the labor market with heterogeneous firms, on-the-job search and...
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The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2002
The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...
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Is the Child Health / Family Income Gradient Universal? : Evidence from England
Currie, Alison; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2004
evidence that nutrition and family lifestyle choices have an important role in determining child health and that child health …
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Consumption and nutrition: age - intake profiles for Czechoslovakia 1989 - 1992
Miquel, Ruth; Laisney, François - 2000
This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the relation between nutrient intake and age for Czechoslovak individuals, as a function of characteristics of both the individual and the household she lives in, on the basis of household purchases. Results show no significant difference between...
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Länderclubs mit ähnlichen Innovationssystemen
Schneider, Stephanie - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 77 (2008) 2, pp. 65-78
Der Innovationsindikator Deutschland bestimmt die relative Position von 17 hochentwickelten Volkswirtschaften im … Bildung der Gruppen erfolgt jeweils mittels einer hierarchischen Clusteranalyse. Es zeigt sich, dass drei Länderclubs mit … einem ähnlichen Innovationsniveau existieren, wobei Deutschland dort zu einem mehrere Länder umfassenden Mittelfeld gehört …
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A bioeconomic foundation of the Malthusian equilibrium : body size and population size in the long-run
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2007
fertility. The theory admits a unique Malthusian equilibrium in a two-dimensional state space characterized by population …
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Subsistence: A Bio-economic Foundation of the Malthusian Equilibrium
Strulik, Holger; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - 2007
mass and fertility. The theory admits a two-dimensional Malthusian equilibrium characterized by population density and body …
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