Der vorliegende Bericht stellt revidierte Schätzungen für die Stille Reserve und das Erwerbspersonenpotenzial Westdeutschlands zur Diskussion. Datenbasis sind korrigierte Erwerbsquoten des Mikrozensus, die die geringfügige Beschäftigung besser berücksichtigen als die Orginal-Erwerbsquoten....

Der vorliegende Bericht präsentiert revidierte Schätzungen für die Stille Reserve und das Erwerbspersonenpotenzial Ostdeutschlands. Die aktuellen Berechnungen berücksichtigen insbesondere die Erkenntnisse über die geringfügige Beschäftigung und integrieren diese für eine Korrektur der...

Die Arbeit ist ein erster deutscher Beitrag zur new tax responsiveness literature. Wir beobachten das Verhalten eines Panels baden-württembergischer Einkommenssteuerpflichtiger vor dem Hintergrund der Steuerreform 1990 und schätzen die Elastizität des zu versteuernden Einkommens in Bezug auf...

In 1990 the German personal income tax schedule underwent a major change. We interpret this reform as a ?natural experiment' and use a panel of individual income tax returns to analyze the response of income to changes in the individual tax rates. Our results suggest an average elasticity of...

Collective wage agreements still play an important role in the German wage bargaining system. However, there is a critical debate in Germany whether collective agreements deliver the flexibility needed by firms to adjust to the needs of international competition and technological change. In...

Inflation in Central and East European countries varied considerably over the transition phase, and econometric relationships between prices, money, wages and exchange rates are said to have been unstable during this period. In order to shed some light on the issue, this paper analyses some...

The purpose of our paper is to derive instructive analytics on how to account for differentials in demographic variables, in particular mortality, when performing welfare comparisons over time. The idea is to apply various ways of 'correcting' estimated income distribution measures for 'sample...

The economic forecasts for Germany in the period 2001 to 2003 grossly missed reality. Forecasters estimated an average annual growth rate of 1.6 per cent, but real GDP actually grew by only 0.3 per cent per annum. In 2003 the real GDP in Germany even shrank by 0.1 per cent. Forecasters tend to...

The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using Armenia as a case study. In the framework of this paper author provides an overview of research relating to inequalities in health to the disadvantage of the poor, and to changes in...

In this paper we demonstrate that there is evidence of an unstable and nonlinear relationship between fundamentals and exchange rates. Modeling this time-varying nature of the importance of fundamentals in a Markov switching framework substantially improves the fit of the real interest rate...