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the arts occupations. Female artists generally earn less than male artists who work in the same occupation. This gender …, exists for female artists employed in full-time jobs. The explained portion of the gap indicates that women are often …
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In U.S. federal income tax, the standard deduction, along with the personal exemptions, provides taxpayers with a minimum amount of untaxed income, effectively creating a "zero bracket amount." For historical and political reasons, however, the standard deduction also operates as a simplified...
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The proposal is offered as a part of the Shelf Project, a collaboration by tax professionals to develop and perfect proposals to help Congress when it needs to raise revenue. Shelf Project proposals are intended to raise revenue without raising tax rates because the best systems have taxes that...
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Paper prepared for presentation at the 7th Industrieforum PelletsStuttgart (Germany), 10th October 2007 …Compared to other heating markets the wood pellets market is quite young and small in Germany. Nevertheless it is a … within the scope of this project. Therefore people in different parts of Germany have been asked about their heating system …
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procuring full remuneration throughout the leave period. However, the mandatory maternity leave system in Germany is not an …
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of uncertainty measures based on GSOEP data from Eastern (and for comparison purposes also Western) Germany for the years … Eastern Germany during its transition than in Western Germany and had a highly nonlinear effect on the probability of a birth … uncertainty in East Germany in the transition could have contributed significantly to the sharp fall and unusually low level of …
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In this study, we seek to better understand the interest rate pass-through in five Central and Eastern European countries -- the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, the CEE-5. Our pass-through estimates for several retail rates are generally lower than those reported in the...
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Price promotions are important marketing activities for (food) retailers; brand loyalty is a major requisite to foster brands' assets. Several theoretical papers have analyzed the relationship between price promotions and brand loyalty resulting in mixed or perhaps contradictory outcomes; only a...
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In this study the case of olive oil imports of Germany is examined since olive oil is a traditional Mediterranean … commodity and Germany is the biggest importer in the EU. A gravity model has been employed so as to analyse those factors that … Mediterranean Partner country of the EU has the highest impact on trade flows to Germany, thus supporting further Euromediterranean …
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study is to identify factors that determine income diversification in Germany. An econometric model has been estimated based …
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