Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...

Gegenstand des Sammelbandes ist die Gesundheitswirtschaft aus regionaler Perspektive. Nach theoretischen Überlegungen zu den Besonderheiten des Gesundheitsmarktes und der Lokalisierung gesundheitswirtschaftlicher Aktivitäten werden die räumliche Konzentration und Entwicklung der...

Using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS) covering 1980-2001 we investigate what impact the fall of the Iron Curtain has had on the skill structure of employment and wages in the western German districts neighbouring the Czech Republic. The introduction of free trade in this region, which has one...