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How wages change: micro evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project
Dickens, William T.; Götte, Lorenz; Groshen, Erica L.; … - 2006
How do the complex institutions involved in wage setting affect wage changes? The International Wage Flexibility Project provides new microeconomic evidence on how wages change for continuing workers. We analyze individuals’ earnings in 31 different data sets from sixteen countries, from which...
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Maintaining low inflation: money, interest rates, and policy stance
Reynard, Samuel - 2007
This paper presents a systematic empirical relationship between money and subsequent prices and output, using US, euro area and Swiss data since the 1960-70s. Monetary developments, unlike interest rate stance measures, are shown to provide qualitative and quantitative information on subsequent...
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The political economy under monetary union: has the euro made a difference?
Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2008
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...
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The State and Poverty Alleviation in Advanced Capitalist Democracies
Moller, Stephanie; Bradley, David; Huber, Evelyne; … - 2001
We analyze the impact of the state on the incidence of poverty in the working-age population of 14 advanced capitalist democracies between 1970 and 1997 using an unbalanced panel design. We utilize poverty measures based on micro-level data from the Luxembourg Income Study in conjunction with...
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Erbschaftsteuerbelastung in Deutschland, den Staaten der EU und anderen wichtigen Staaten bei unbeschränkter und beschränkter Steuerpflicht: Dienstleistungsauftrag des BMF (Projekt...
Büttner, Thiess; Scheffler, Wolfram; Spengel, Christoph; … - 2004
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Das Personenfreizügigkeitsabkommen Schweiz-EU/EFTA und das Wachstum des BIP pro Kopf in der Schweiz: Bericht zuhanden des Bundesamtes für Migration (BFM)
Siegenthaler, Michael; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2012
Dieser Bericht beleuchtet, wie das Personenfreizügigkeitsabkommen (FZA) der Schweiz mit den EU/EFTA-Staaten das … Einkommenswachstum in der Schweiz in den letzten Jahren beeinflusst hat. Der Bericht verfolgt das Ziel, Klarheit in die in der … Bruttoinlandprodukts (BIP) pro Kopf der Bevölkerung in der Schweiz gehabt hat. Aus den Analysen lässt sich vor allem ein genereller Schluss …
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Der bilaterale Weg - eine ökonomische Bestandsaufnahme. Aktualisierung der Studie "Auswirkung der bilateralen Abkommen auf die Schweizer Wirtschaft"
Abberger, Klaus; Abrahamsen, Yngve; Bolli, Thomas; … - 2015
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The Delegation Perspective on Representative Democracy
Hain, Roland; Mitra, Manipushpak - 2002
Why do political constituencies delegate decision power to representative assemblies? And how is the size of such assemblies determined? We analyze these questions of constitutional design in a model with voters learning their preferred alternative only after engaging in costly information...
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Volunteer work, informal help, and care among the 50+ in Europe: further evidence for linked productive activities at older ages
Hank, Karsten; Stuck, Stephanie - 2007
Objectives - Taking a cross-national comparative perspective, we investigate linkages between volunteer work, informal helping, and caring among Europeans aged 50 or older: Is the relationship between these activities characterized by complementarity or by substitution? Is there evidence for the...
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Nutzen und Kosten einer klimapolitischen Kooperation zwischen der Schweiz und der EU
Oberauner, Iris Maria; Krysiak, Frank C. - 2008
Mit 01. Januar 2008 wurde in der Schweiz ein System zum Handel von Emissionsrechten gestartet. Neben der CO2-Abgabe und …-Zielreduktion beitragen. Die Schweiz verfolgt zur Senkung der Treibhausgase eine weltweit einzigartige Politik, indem sie Unternehmen, die CO2 …
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