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Economic Effects of VAT Reform in Germany
Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Büttner, Thiess; … - 2006
In the tax policy debate, differentiation of value-added taxes is often justified by distributional concerns. Our quantitative analysis for Germany indicates that such concerns are misplaced. We find that the abolition of VAT differentiation has only negligible redistributive effects. Instead,...
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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - 2009
distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid … 1990s onwards. Mobility is highest in the middle section of the distribution. Better qualified persons, younger persons and … individuals moving downwards in the wage distribution. …
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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by real wage increases at the top of the wage distribution, but also … women at the bottom and at the top of the wage distribution. A sequential decomposition analysis using quantile regression …
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Why Do Firms Train Apprentices? The Net Cost Puzzle Reconsidered
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - 2008
analyse the impact of the proportion of different occupational groups of apprentices on firm performance. We use … firm performance: the companies cover their training costs immediately. In contrast, companies with apprentices in the …
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