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Incumbency Effects in German and British Elections: A Quasi- Experimental Approach
Hainmueller, Jens; Kern, Holger Lutz - EconWPA - 2005
Following the recent turn towards quasi-experimental approaches in the US literature on the incumbency advantage (Lee, 2001; Lee, forthcoming), we employ a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to identify the causal effects of party incumbency in British and German post-World War II elections. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412454
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Work Sharing: The Quick Route Back to Full Employment
Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011
This paper outlines a proposal for a system of work sharing that would give employers an incentive to maintain workers on their payroll at reduced hours as an alternative to laying them off. The system would be attached to the existing system of unemployment compensation, with shorttime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144917
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Der Wachstumsbeitrag einer Senkung des Mehrwertsteuersatzes auf Hotelübernachtungen : eine Simulationsrechnung
Mönnig, Anke; Wolter, Marc Ingo - 2010
Mit dem Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetz vom Dezember 2009 ist ein drittes Maßnahmenpaket in die Wege geleitet worden, mit dessen Hilfe die Folgen des Wirtschaftseinbruchs im Jahr 2009 abgefedert bzw. diesen entgegen gewirkt werden sollte. Die darin enthaltenen steuerlichen Sofortmaßnahmen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975311
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Efficient revenue sharing and upper level governments : theory and application to Germany
Büttner, Thiess (contributor);  … - 2006
from tax competition. This paper further explores the conditions under which local grant systems enforced by the state … tax competition. This basic model is then extended in order to allow for variations in the government objectives at the … state level. A subsequent empirical analysis of local tax policy exploits the experience with local fiscal revenue sharing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301132
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Reforminduzierte Anpassungen des zu versteuernden Einkommens
Witczak, Daniela - 2011 - 1. Aufl.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009412169
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Familienpolitik für junge Familien : Wirkungen des "Familiengeld"-Konzepts der CDU/CSU-Bundestags-Fraktion
Werding, Martin; Kaltenborn, Bruno; Langmantel, Erich; … - 2001
Gegenstand der Studie sind die Auswirkungen einer Einführung des von der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion vorgeschlagenen "Familiengeldes" auf öffentliche Finanzen, Arbeitsmarkt und die wirtschaftliche Situation von Familien mit Kindern im Vorschulalter, die als Adressaten des Familiengeldes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013433833
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Testing the easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and in the UK
Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013
Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009759758
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Individual behavior as a pathway between early-life shocks and adult health : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany
Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; … - 2013
hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204606
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Endogeneity in the relation between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction
Hajek, André - 2013
life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209215
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Testing the easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and the UK
Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013 - This version: February, 2013
Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747819