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Labour market transitions and the persistence of unemployment : West Germany 1983-1992

Steiner, Viktor - 1994

Although explanations of the persistence of high unemployment in Germany, in particular long-term unemployment, have …-Economic Panel for West Germany covering the period 1983 to 1992. The focus of the study is on the importance of "negative duration …

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Testing for state dependence effects in a dynamic model of male unemployment behaviour

Flaig, Gebhard; Licht, Georg; Steiner, Viktor - 1993

A dynamic random effects probit model is estimated on the first six waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to test for state dependence effects in male unemployment behaviour. Estimation of the model is based on the marginal likelihood approach. In the model an individual's unemployment...

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Assimilation, labour market experience, and earnings profiles of temporary and permanent immigrant workers in Germany

Licht, Georg; Steiner, Viktor - 1993

Germany which allows us to control for unobserved population heterogeneity and potential selectivity bias arising from an …-worker system we use information on an immigrant's expected duration of stay in Germany to distinguish between temporary and … of stay. We find that years of schooling in Germany have a strong positive effect on earnings, that earnings …

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Re-migration behaviour and expected duration of stay of guest-workers in Germany

Steiner, Viktor; Velling, Johannes - 1992

We analyze guest-workers' expected duration of stay in Germany within an econometric model taking into account the …

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Has earnings inequality in Germany changed in the 1980's?

Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1996

inequality in Germany has increased very little in the 1980's, if at all. It is shown ·that the marked increase in earnings …

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Modelling heaping effects in unemployment duration models : with an application to retrospective event data in the German socio-economic panel

Kraus, Florian; Steiner, Viktor - 1995

Unemployment duration data derived from retrospective surveys often show an abnormal concentration of responses at certain durations. This common kind of measurement error is known as "heaping" in the statistical literature. Although heaping effects may lead to severe biases in estimated...

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An integrated micro data base for tax analysis in Germany

Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2017

die Steuerlast in Deutschland? - Verteilungswirkungen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems" (Who bears the tax burden … in Germany? - Distributional Analyses of the German tax and transfer system). Financial support from the Hans Böckler …

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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany

Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015

We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...

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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …

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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts : a microsimulation analysis for Germany

Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …

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