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The Effects of Financing Rules in Pay-As-You-Go Pension Systems on the Life a...
Empirically, revenues of public pension systems are more volatile than expenditures. Therefore, the question arises how the social security authority should buffer its revenues... -
Macroeconomic Long-Run Effects of the German Minimum Wage when Labor Markets ...
This paper analyzes the introduction of the German minimum wage in 2015 in a structural model geared to quantitatively assess its long-run economic effects. We first employ a... -
Triplets, Quads and Quints: Estimating Disaggregate Trade Elasticities with D...
Trade elasticities are a crucial variable for research on international trade. Caliendo and Parro (2015) provide a novel method to estimate trade elasticities which is based on... -
Trade and the Size Distribution of Firms: Evidence from the German Empire
What effect did trade have on the size distribution of firms during the first wave of globalization? Three historical datasets from the German Empire between 1875 and 1907 were... -
Income-(in)dependent equivalence scales and inequality measurement
Most equivalence scales that are applied in research on inequality do not depend on income, even though there is strong empirical evidence that equivalence scales are actually... -
Do Political Parties Matter? - Evidence from German Municipalities
We assess whether the partisanship of local councils affects the level and composition of local public spending by German municipalities. Our identification strategy exploits... -
Parity Funding of Health Care Contributions in Germany: A DSGE Perspective
Germany reintroduced parity funding of the statutory health insurance scheme in January 2019 by lowering the contribution rates for employees and raising those for employers,... -
Different Counselors, Many Options: Career Guidance and Career Plans in Secon...
Career guidance assists students with the school-to-work transition. Based on a survey conducted in secondary schools in Germany, we analyze career guidance activities and how... -
Replication files for "Using occupations to evaluate the employment effects o...
These replication files may be used to reproduce the results in "Using occupations to evaluate the employment effects of the German minimum wage" by Martin Friedrich published... -
The Impact of the German Minimum Wage on Individual Wages and Monthly Earnings
This paper evaluates the short-run impact of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany on the hourly wages and monthly earnings of workers targeted by the reform.... -
EDUCATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN SMOKING: SELECTION VERSUS CAUSATION (replication d...
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Economic Policy Uncertainty in the Euro Area: Cross-Country Spillovers and Ma...
This package contains the program codes and data files necessary to replicate the results of the spillover analysis in Economic Policy Uncertainty in the Euro Area:... -
In search of an appropriate lower bound. The zero lower bound vs. the positiv...
Using a standard New Keynesian model, we show that moderate side effects of zero lower bound (ZLB) policy suffice for positive lower bound (PLB) policy to pay off in terms of... -
Did the German minimum wage reform influence (un)employment growth in 2015? E...
Using the variation across space, age and sex and the variation across space and sectors, we analyze the relationship between the minimum wage and (un-)employment growth in... -
Data access and supplement materials in Genz, Janser, and Lehmer (2019)
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The Effects of Germany’s New Minimum Wage on Employment and Welfare Dependency
In January 2015, Germany introduced a federal, statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per hour. This study evaluates the effects of this policy on regular and marginal employment... -
Voluntary Quits: Do Works Councils Matter? (replication data)
Most of the literature on the effects of German works councils does not deal with the issue of potential endogeneity of works council existence. Exploiting exogenous variation... -
The productivity effects of worker mobility between heterogeneous firms
We analyze the effect of worker inflows on establishments’ productivity, using German data. Previous studies for other countries have found positive effects of hiring workers... -
Studying Firm Growth Distributions with a Large Administrative Employment Dat...
This paper uses business tax administrative data to describe the annual firm growth rate distribution in Canada over the 2000-2009 period. This administrative tax database... -
Strategic Timing of Investment over the Business Cycle - replication data
We analyze a data set containing rental revenues, maintenance costs, and sale prices of five different types of rental machines to econometrically estimate key relationships...
