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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... -
OLS and 2SLS in Randomized and Conditionally Randomized Experiments
We investigate estimation and inference of the (local) average treatment effect parameter when a binary instrumental variable is generated by a randomized or conditionally... -
Randomization in Online Experiments
Most scientists consider randomized experiments to be the best method available to establish causality. On the Internet, during the past twenty-five years, randomized... -
Data set for Roodman replication of Bleakley 2010
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Slow and Steady Wins the Race: Approximating Nash Equilibria in Nonlinear Qua...
OPTGAME DE Version 1.0 03/2018 for the article titled "Slow and Steady Wins the Race: Approximating Nash Equilibria in Nonlinear Quadratic Tracking Games"