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Selected issues of personal income taxation harmonization

Wołowiec, Tomasz - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 2, pp. 30-44

In the process of furthering EU integration little attention was given to the role of income taxes. Multiple income tax systems exist across the Union and their differentiation negatively impacts the European labor market, investments and savings, inhibiting economic growth. Individual nations...

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Wenig Chancengleichheit in Deutschland : Familienhintergrund prägt eigenen ökonomischen Erfolg

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 4, pp. 3-9

similarly low level as in the US and significantly lower than in Denmark. -- equality of opportunity ; sibling correlations …

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Bildung der Mütter kommt der Gesundheit ihrer Kinder zugute

Kemptner, Daniel; Marcus, Jan - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 5, pp. 3-12

Jugendliche rauchen häufiger, treiben seltener Sport und sind öfter übergewichtig, je niedriger der Schulabschluss ihrer Mutter ist. Das zeigt eine Studie des DIW Berlin auf Grundlage von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP). Zumindest ein Teil dieser gesundheitsbezogenen Unterschiede...

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Human capital transmission and the earnings of second-generation immigrants in Sweden

Hammarstedt, Mats; Palme, Mårten - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence in average earnings between groups of immigrants...

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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...

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Allein tätige Selbständige : starkes Beschäftigungswachstum, oft nur geringe Einkommen

Brenke, Karl - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 7, pp. 3-15

In den vergangenen beiden Jahrzehnten ist die Zahl der Selbständigen in Deutschland kräftig gestiegen. Dies ist fast ausschließlich auf die Entwicklung bei allein tätigen Selbständigen (Solo-Selbständigen) zurückzuführen. Besonders stark hat sich dabei die Zahl selbständiger Frauen...

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Does more unemployment cause more fear of unemployment?

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-26

Using the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey data, the paper examines Russian workers’ fear of unemployment under different economic and labor market conditions during the last 15 years. We employ two alternative measures for this fear. The first one looks at the workers’ fear of losing...

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Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level : migration policy lessons from Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-20

What are the migration policy lessons that can be learned from the Spanish case? Unlike countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants, in Spain having a high-school degree does not give immigrants an advantage in terms wage or occupational assimilation (relative to their native...

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Labor market conditions and self-employment : a Denmark-Spain comparison

Carrasco, Raquel; Ejrnæs, Mette - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-16

Among the OECD countries, Spain faces one of the highest rates of self-employment and Denmark one of the lowest, being … employment, while this pattern is not so clear in Denmark. Specifically, in Spain those individuals in the bottom part of the …, start more often their own business than in Denmark. -- self-employment ; labor transitions ; employment conditions …

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The impact of parents’ years since migration on children’s academic achievement

Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rangvid, Beatrice Schindler - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent’s years since migration on their children’s school achievements. We exploit variation in years since migration and within-family variation. We find evidence of...

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