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

Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - 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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Public works for Poland? Active labour market policies during transition

Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1996

Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...

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Sharing the burden? Empirical evidence on corporate tax incidence

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 - 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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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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Geringfügige Beschäftigung - Sprungbrett oder Sackgasse?

Steiner, Viktor - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 14, pp. 166-167

Geringfügige subventionierte Beschäftigung wird von ihren Kritikern eher als Sackgasse denn als Sprungbrett in reguläre Beschäftigung angesehen. In einer neueren Studie des DIW Berlin wurden auch die längerfristigen Effekte der Aufnahme einer geringfügigen subventionierten Beschäftigung...

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Hohe Bildungsrenditen durch Vermeidung von Arbeitslosigkeit

Steiner, Viktor; Schmitz, Sebastian - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 5, pp. 2-8

Bildungsinvestitionen sind für den Einzelnen mit einem höheren Erwerbseinkommen und einem geringeren Arbeitslosigkeitsrisiko im Lebenszyklus verbunden. Eine Analyse auf Basis von Erwerbsbiografien des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zeigt, dass die private Bildungsrendite, also der...

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Self-employment: A Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (long-term) unemployment significantly increases …

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Returns to education across Europe: A comparative analysis for selected EU countries

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - 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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