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Evidence during the nineties about the response of real wages to shocks highlights that this response is substantially lower in European countries than in the United States and that there are important differences among European countries. Which are the reasons that explain these different reactions? In this paper, we apply meta-analytical techniques in order to provide a quantitative summary of the ...
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Kyklos
60 (2007), 2, S. 145-163
| Miquel Clar, Christian Dreger, Raul Ramos
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Objectives. Considerable evidence suggests that enforcement efforts cannot fully explain the high degree of tax compliance. To resolve this puzzle of tax compliance, several researchers have argued that citizens' attitudes toward paying taxes, defined as tax morale, helps to explain the high degree of tax compliance. However, most studies have treated tax morale as a black box, without discussing which ...
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Social Science Quarterly
88 (2007), 2, S. 443-470
| Benno Torgler, Friedrich Schneider
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We present a new estimate of Anglo-German manufacturing productivity levels for 1935/36. It is based on archival data on German manufacturing and published British census data. We calculate comparative levels of value added, correcting for differences in prices for outputs and inputs. This so-called double deflation procedure provides new insights into productivity comparisons because output- and input ...
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The Journal of Economic History
67 (2007), 2, S. 350-378
| Rainer Fremdling, Herman De Jong, Marcel P. Timmer
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In Germany, processes can be observed that have long been out of keeping with the principle of equality of opportunity. Unemployment is concentrated in the structurally weak peripheral areas, in Eastern Germany in particular; emigration of young and better-educated people to the West is not diminishing, but contrary to expectation is again on the increase; aging processes have set in already, and when ...
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Social Indicators Research
83 (2007), 2, S. 283-307
| Annette Spellerberg, Denis Huschka, Roland Habich
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We consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods: one that benefits mobile skilled workers and one that benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different spending categories. We then estimate these reaction functions using data from German communities. Thereby we explicitly allow ...
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Finanzarchiv
63 (2007), 2, S. 264-277
| Rainald Borck, Marco Caliendo, Viktor Steiner
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In the aftermath of Germany's reunification, redesigning their product range was a major challenge for East-German enterprises. At the same time, there were growing signs that Western enterprises reacted to globalization and European integration by increasingly pursuing strategies of specialization. Using representative micro data from Germany's system of register based, official firm surveys, this ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
227 (2007), 2, S. 168-186
| Bernd Görzig, Martin Gornig, Axel Werwatz
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This paper studies budget processes, both theoretically and experimentally. We compare the outcomes of bottom-up and top-down budget processes. It is often presumed that a top-down budget process leads to a smaller overall budget than a bottom-up budget process. Ferejohn and Krehbiel [Ferejohn, J., Krehbiel, K., 1987. The budget process and the sizeof the budget, Amer. J. Polit. Sci. 31, 296-320] showed ...
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Games and Economic Behavior
59 (2007), 2, S. 279-295
| Karl-Martin Ehrhart, Roy Gardner, Jürgen von Hagen, Claudia Keser
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In this paper a structural macroeconometric model for the Euro area is presented. In contrast to the multi-country modelling approach, the model relies on aggregate data on the supra-national level. Due to non-stationarity, all equations are estimated in error correction form. The cointegrating relations are derived jointly with the short-run dynamics, avoiding the finite sample bias of the two-step ...
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Journal of Policy Modeling
29 (2007), 1, S. 1-13
| Massimiliano Marcellino, Christian Dreger
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We introduce a one-parameter class of individual deprivation measures. Motivated by a suggestion of Runciman, we modify Yitzhaki's index by multiplying it by a function that is interpreted as measuring the part of deprivation generated byan agent's observation that others in his reference group move on to a higher level of income than himself. The parameter reflects the relative weight given to these ...
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Social Choice and Welfare
28 (2007), 1, S. 77-88
| Walter Bossert, Conchita D'Ambrosio
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Based on the conditional independence or unconfoundedness assumption,. - matching has become a popular approach to estimate average treatment. - effects. Checking the sensitivity of the estimated results with respect to deviations. - from this identifying assumption has become an increasingly important topic. - in the applied evaluation literature. If there are unobserved variables that affect. - assignment ...
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The Stata Journal
7 (2007), 1, S. 71-83
| Sascha O. Becker, Marco Caliendo