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Tax Competition and the Choice of Tax Structure in a Majority Voting Model

This note studies the choice of tax structure in a majority voting model with tax competition. Regions may tax mobile capital or immobile labor. Individuals differ with respect to their relative endowments of labor and capital. Even though a lump sum tax is available, the equilibrium capital tax in a jurisdiction may be positive. In a symmetric equilibrium, this will be true if the median capital endowment ...

A Note on Regional Convergence within the EU

A recently published article suggested that factor prices within the EU converged between 1980 and 1992 but diverged between 1992 and 1994. However, these findings largely reflect inflation differentials and exchange rate adjustments. Markov chain analysis on the basis of an alternative income aggregate, GDP per capita measured in Purchasing Power Standards, leads to different results: Convergence ...

Auswirkungen und Perspektiven der Ökologischen Steuerreform in Deutschland: eine modellgestützte Analyse

A first systematic, model-based analysis of the environmental fiscal reform in Germany is undertaken with an econometric model and an empirical general equilibrium model. It indicates moderate but slightly positive effects on employment, energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The influence on economic growth is very low; employment is growing slightly, while energy consumption and CO2 emissions are ...

To What Extent Do Fiscal Regimes Equalize Opportunities for Income Acquisition among Citizens?

This paper employs the theory of equality of opportunity, described in Roemer's book (Equality of Opportunity, Harvard University Press, 1998), to compute the extent to which tax-and-transfer regimes in 11 countries equalize opportunities among citizens for income acquisition. Roughly speaking, equality of opportunity for incomes has been achieved in a country when it is the case that the distributions ...

The Income of Socialist Upper Classes during the Transition to Capitalism: Evidence from Longitudinal East German Data

We use data from the East German sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to examine the incomes of privileged individuals during the transition from socialism to capitalism. The standard measure of elite status is party membership, but this measure is likely to be inaccurate. Instead we identify the upperclass by the ownership of a telephone before the fall of the Berlin Wall. We find that ...

Das Verhalten von Interviewern: Darstellung und ausgewählte Analysen am Beispiel des "Interviewerpanels" des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels

Eine Strategie zur Kontrolle von Längsschnittgewichtungen in Panelerhebungen: das Beispiel des Sozio-Oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)

Towards an Improved Statistical Infrastructure: Summary Report of the Commission Set up by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) to Improve the Statistical Infrastructure in Cooperation with the Scientific Community and Official Statistics ; Documentation

Children's School Placement in Germany: Does Kindergarten Attendance Matter?

The positive effects of Early Childhood Programs (ECP's) on children's school success have been demonstrated in the literature. However, most studies were completed in the U.S.A., where ECP's vary widely, based on differing auspice, regulation, cost, and other factors. In European countries, ECP's are generally far more homogenous. This is particularly true for Germany where most programs are community-based ...

Pitfalls in Restructuring the Electricity Industry

This paper models some reductions in output that may follow the opening of electricity markets to competition. Specifically, we show that vertical separation of electricity generation, transmission and distribution could reduce welfare compared to the previous system of vertically integrated monopoly, if grid owners can act as monopolistic retailers or, alternatively, set access prices that maximize ...

An Approach for Timely Estimations of the German GDP

Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnungen im Zentrum der wirtschaftspolitischen Diskussion: zur Einführung

Stability Criteria and Convergence: The Role of the System of National Accounts for Fiscal Policy in Europe

Regional Conversion in the Russian Case

Decentralization has put increasing power at the disposal of regions to support conversion processes in Russia since 1992. There is, however, no clear-cut relation between the defense dependency of regions and their conversion success. Other factors, such as exports of any kind, the composition of regional industrial demand for nondefense goods, and the availability of shock absorbers - such as small ...

Changes in Women's Wages after Parental Leave

In 1986 German parental leave and benefit policy was expanded by extending the potential duration of leave from six to ten months and paying maternity benefits to all new mothers. The potential duration has increased four times since 1986 and stood at three years in 1992. This study uses differenced log-wage regressions to examine the effect of taking maternity leave on wage growth for two 5-year periods, ...

Income Risks within Retirement in Great Britain and Germany

This study examines income mobility amongst older people in Great Britain and Germany after retirement. The motivation is that older people may be subject to greater income risks in today's environment of early exits from the labour force, rising longevity and increasing reliance on private pension income. Our results provide evidence that income mobility amongst older people is more pronounced in ...

Interactions between Care-Giving and Paid Work Hours among European Midlife Women, 1994 to 1996

This paper uses data from the European Community Household Panel surveys of 1994 and 1996 to study the association between changes in care-giving and changes in weekly work hours. Our sample comprises women aged 45-59 years who participated in the labour force in at least one of the two years studied. Controlling for country variation, we find significant relationships between starting or increasing ...

Die "Geiselhaft" des Relationship-Intermediärs: eine Nachlese zur Beinahe-Insolvenz des Holzmann-Konzerns

When the Philipp Holzmann corporation declared insolvency many professional observers suggested that the German constructor had fallen victim to the operation of `Germany Inc.'. This metaphor meant to blame the close ties between Deutsche Bank and Holzmann as the ultimate reason for the insolvency of Holzmann. This paper challenges the notion that the relationship between Deutsche Bank and Holzmann ...

Occupational Mobility after Apprenticeship - How Effective is the German Apprenticeship System?

In this paper we provide evidence on the effectiveness of the German apprenticeship system in enhancing workers' productivity. More specifically, we estimate earnings differentials between those who subsequently leave the occupation they were apprenticed in and those who remain in their training occupation. Some authors have beenconcerned with the potential productivity- and earnings-decreasing effects ...

Does Male Age Have an Influence on the Risk of Spontaneous Abortion? An Approach Using Semiparametric Regression

Couples in industrialized countries tend to delay attempting to have children, which may lower their chances of livebirth. The authors assessed the association between male age and the risk of spontaneous abortion between weeks 5 and 20 of pregnancy, controlling for female age. They interviewed by telephone a random cross-sectional population of 1,151 French women who had been pregnant between 1985 ...