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Universities that matter for regional knowledge base renewal : the role of multilevel embeddedness

Grashof, Nils; Graf, Holger - 2023

We analyze the role of universities or, more generally higher education institutions (HEIs), in terms of their regional and international embeddedness for regional knowledge base renewal. We assume that the introduction of radical patents in the sense of novel technological combinations...

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Is a Flat Tax politically feasible in a grown-up Welfare State?

Schaefer, Thilo; Peichl, Andreas; Fuest, Clemens - 2007

The introduction of a flat tax is supposed to have several advantages. Administration and compliance costs are reduced, as well as incentives for tax evasion. Furthermore, positive employment and growth effects are expected. Despite these advantages, a flat rate tax is not very popular in most...

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Economic Effects of VAT Reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Büttner, Thiess; … - 2006

In the tax policy debate, differentiation of value-added taxes is often justified by distributional concerns. Our quantitative analysis for Germany indicates that such concerns are misplaced. We find that the abolition of VAT differentiation has only negligible redistributive effects. Instead,...

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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes - 2009

distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid … 1990s onwards. Mobility is highest in the middle section of the distribution. Better qualified persons, younger persons and … individuals moving downwards in the wage distribution. …

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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010

wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by real wage increases at the top of the wage distribution, but also … women at the bottom and at the top of the wage distribution. A sequential decomposition analysis using quantile regression …

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Is a flat tax feasible in a grown-up welfare state?

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - 2007

The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare states of Western Europe. The present paper uses a simulation model to analyse the effects of revenue neutral flat rate tax reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of...

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20 years of German unification: evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...

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20 years of German unification: evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 2009

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Ausschliesslichkeitsbindungen im Treibstoffvertrieb

Lange, Ulrich - 1979

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Distribution and growth in France and Germany - single equation estimations and model simulations based on the Bhaduri/Marglin-model

Hein, Eckhard; Vogel, Lena - 2007

The authors analyse the relationship between functional income distribution and economic growth in France and Germany … from 1960 until 2005. The analysis is based on a demand-driven distribution and growth model for an open economy inspired …

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