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The aggregate average wage is often used as an indicator of economic performance and welfare, and as such often serves as a benchmark for changes in the generosity of public transfers and for wage negotiations. Yet if economies experience a high degree of (non-random) fluctuation in employment, the composition of the employed population will have a considerable effect on the computed average. In this ...
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Economics of Transition
15 (2007), 4, S. 759-779
| Michal Myck, Leszek Morawski, Jerzy Mycielski
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Labour force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar; however, full-time employment rates are much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences in the tax-transfer system, we perform a comparative microsimulation exercise. After estimatingstructural labour supply models for both countries, we interchange ...
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Fiscal Studies
28 (2007), 4, S. 463-495
| Helene Dearing, Helmut Hofer, Christine Lietz, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Katharina Wrohlich
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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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This paper surveys models of voting on redistribution. Under reasonable assumptions, the baseline model produces an equilibrium with the extent of redistributive taxation chosen by the median income earner. If the median is poorer than average, redistribution is from rich to poor, and increasing inequality increases redistribution. However, under different assumptions about the economic environment, ...
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Journal of Economic Surveys
21 (2007), 1, S. 90-109
| Rainald Borck
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Estimates of the labour supply effects of recent UK reforms in the area of direct taxes and benefits show that policy can have significant influence on the level of employment. We confirm this in a simulation of an in-work support system introduced into the German tax and benefit system. Our simulation results suggest that introducing in-work tax credits in Germany would increase the employment of ...
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Fiscal Studies
28 (2007), 1, S. 43-72
| Peter Haan, Michal Myck
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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
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Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age and year effects in the returns. For women, we find a large and robust decline in schooling premia: In the private sector, the returns to a ...
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Applied Economics
38 (2006), 10, S. 1135-1152
| Bernhard Boockmann, Viktor Steiner
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This study compares several specifications of discrete choice labour supply estimations on basis of the German Socio Economic Panel. The results suggest that despite the restrictive assumptions of the error terms the conditional logit model provides an adequate model choice for the analysis of labour supply functions. Significance tests, which are based on bootstrapped confidence intervals, show that ...
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Applied Economics Letters
13 (2006), 4, S. 251-256
| Peter Haan
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Tax competition may be different in "new economic geography settings" compared to standard tax competition models. If the mobile factor is completely agglomerated in one region, it earns an agglomeration rent which can be taxed. Closer integration first results in a "race to the top" in taxes before leading to a "race to the bottom". We reexamine these issues in a model that produces stable equilibria ...
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European Economic Review
50 (2006), 3, S. 647-668
| Rainald Borck, Michael Pflüger
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Job creation schemes (JCS) have been one important programme of active labour market policy (ALMP) in Germany for a long time. They aim at the re-integration of hard-to-place unemployed individuals into regular employment. A thorough microeconometric evaluation of these programmes was hindered by the fact, that available survey datasets have been too small to account for a possible occurrence of effect ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
226 (2006), 2, S. 139-179
| Marco Caliendo, Reinhard Hujer, Stephan L. Thomsen