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Latin versus European power : a tale of two market reforms

Mennel, Tim (contributor); … - 2007

This paper compares electricity market reforms in the European Union with reforms in Chile and Brazil. The paradigm of … present the institutional framework as well as the development of electricity markets in the European Union, Chile and Brazil … electricity companies and transnational competition, Chile and Brazil have only partially liberalized their electricity sector …

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Socio-economic and demographic factors of crime in Germany : evidence from panel data of the German states

Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 1998 - (This version: 20 April 1998)

Our study is based on the traditional Becker-Ehrlich deterrence model, but we analyse the model in the face of currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the German Laender (states) that allows us to exploit...

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Trends in the German income distribution : 2005/06 to 2010/11

Biewen, Martin; Ungerer, Martin; Löffler, Max - 2016

We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this trend was stopped after 2005/2006. Among many other...

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Marital sorting, inequality and the role of female labor supply : evidence from East and West Germany

Pestel, Nico - 2015

This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past three decades, while explicitly taking into account labor supply choices. Using rich micro data, the observed distribution of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual...

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Shifting taxes from labor to consumption : more employment and more inequality

Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2015

This paper investigates the effect of shifting taxes from labor income to consumption on labor supply and the distribution of income in Germany. We simulate stepwise increases in the value-added tax (VAT) rate, which are compensated by revenue-neutral reductions in income-related taxes. We...

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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone : a cross country comparison using the HFCS

Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2014

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...

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Rising wage inequality in Germany : increasing heterogeneity and changing selection into full-time work

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Lazzer, Jakob de - 2017

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality among full-time workers. The composition effects are larger for females than for males, and...

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Central wage bargaining and local wage flexibility : evidence from the entire wage distribution

Büttner, Thiess; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 1998

We argue that in labor markets with central wage bargaining wage flexibility varies systematically across the wage distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages negotiated under central wage bargaining affects the...

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Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems

Kraus, Margit - 2000

This paper evaluates the linkage between social security strategies and redistributive effects in EU social transfer systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by the adoption of different mixes of social security...

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The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany

Beblo, Miriam; Collier, Irwin L.; Knaus, Thomas - 2001

This paper presents estimates of the unification bonus for East Germans over the period 1991 to 1998. The unification bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person's actual income and his or her counterfactual real income stream forecast for a hypothetical...

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