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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany

Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...

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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed - Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany

Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 64 (2008) 3, pp. 380-402

We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) an employment bonus in the form of subsidized social security contributions on low wages. The work-incentive, labor-supply, and welfare effects of these policy...

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Sharing the burden? Empirical evidence on corporate tax incidence

Dwenger, Nadja; Rattenhuber, Pia; Steiner, Viktor - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

This study empirically investigates the direct incidence of the corporate income tax through wage bargaining, using an industry-region level panel data set on all corporations in Germany over the period 1998 to 2006. Our measure of direct incidence for the first time accounts for employment...

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‘Marginal Employment’ and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from a Multi-Factor Labour Demand Model for Germany

Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eight labour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hours using a new panel data set. For...

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Sharing the burden: Empirical evidence on corporate tax incidence

Dwenger, Nadja; Rattenhuber, Pia; Steiner, Viktor - Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche … - 2011

This study assesses the burden of capital income tax passed onto labor through wage bargaining over economic rents, using estimations based on a unique pseudo-panel data set from Germany for the period 1998 to 2006. Tax return data cover the universe of corporations subject to corporate income...

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When and How to Create a Job: The Survival of New Jobs in Austrian Firms

Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less researched. The question when and how to expand a firm is of importance, both from the firms and from a macro perspective. Adjustment cost theories and arguments about option values of...

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Fertility and economic instability: the role of unemployment and job displacement

Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - In: Journal of Population Economics 28 (2015) 2, pp. 463-478

In this paper, we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displacement on fertility in a sample of white … collar women in Austria. Using an instrumental variable approach, we show that unemployment incidence as such has no negative … the incidence or the duration of the associated unemployment spell. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 …

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Great Expectations: Past Wages and Unemployment Durations

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the influence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …

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Returns to Education across Europe

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

the indirect wage effect resulting from lower unemployment risks and shorter spells in unemployment associated with higher … accounting for the effects of unemployment on individual wages using EU-SILC data. Across countries we find a high variation of … the effect of education on unemployment duration. Overall, the returns to education are estimated to be the highest in the …

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Great expectations: Past wages and unemployment durations

Böheim, Renè; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - In: Labour Economics 18 (2011) 6, pp. 778-785

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the influence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …

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