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How rigid are nominal wages? : evidence and implications for Germany

Knoppik, Christoph; Beissinger, Thomas - 2001

lead to higher equilibrium unemployment via the generated real wage wedge. …

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On the measurement of mismatch

Ochsen, Carsten - 2004

This paper introduces and examines a definition of an equilibrium rate of unemployment that can be used as mismatch …

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Labour market institutions and unemployment revisited

Ochsen, Carsten - 2005

In this paper the effects of institutional variables on unemployment are reinvestigated for nine OECD countries. The … unemployment may differ across countries, not only in absolute terms but also in terms of sign. The main results are the following …. Fourthly, based on a cross country comparison some evidence is found that some of the considered labour market institutions …

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Labor market institutions : curse or blessing?

Ochsen, Carsten; Welsch, Heinz - 2006

present paper investigates whether and to what extent labor market institutions can mitigate those costs. We study how life … satisfaction of European citizens is affected by employment protection and the level and duration of unemployment benefit payments … through the institutions' effect on macroeconomic outcomes). We find that the total effect of employment protection is …

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Sharing the burden? : empirical evidence on corporate tax incidence ; conference paper

Dwenger, Nadja; Rattenhuber, Pia; Steiner, Viktor - 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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Sharing the burden : empirical evidence on corporate tax incidence

Dwenger, Nadja; Rattenhuber, Pia; Steiner, Viktor - 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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'Marginal Employment' and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour : Empirical Evidence from a Multi-Factor Labour Demand Model for Germany

Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2021

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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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations

Steiner, Viktor - 1996

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security …

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Parental labor market success and children's education attainment

Ochsen, Carsten - 2008

and the regional unemployment rate when children are 10 years old are significantly related to the education that these …

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Does downward nominal wage rigidity dampen wage increases?

Stüber, Heiko; Beissinger, Thomas - 2010

Viele empirische Studien, die die Komprimierung von Lohnkürzungen betrachteten, finden einen hohen Grad an Abwärtsnominallohnstarrheit (ANLS). Die resultierenden makroökonomischen Effekte scheinen jedoch überraschend gering zu sein. Dieser Widerspruch kann in einem intertemporalen Rahmen...

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