Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Economics - Job market economics, grade: 1,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Angewandte Mikrookonometrie / Arbeitsmarktokonomik), course: Topics in Labour Economics, language: English, abstract: Using a large administrative data set, a recent study by Dustmann, Ludsteck, and Schonberg 2009] finds convincing evidence for rising wage inequality in West Germany during the past three decades. Their paper shows that the increase occurred above the median during the 1980s, and was augmented by rising inequality below the median in the 1990s. These...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich VWL - Fallstudien, Landerstudien, Note: 1,3, Universitat Mannheim (Lehrstuhl fur Volkswirtschaftslehre, Finanzwissenschaft und Wirtschaftspolitik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This Bachelor thesis contains an empirical analysis of tax competition among German municipalities in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) and Bavaria (Bayern). The distinguishing feature of this paper is that it exploits the German reunification of 1989 as an exogenous shock to communities located close to the prior border. The panel dataset contains detailed information on state...

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, grade: 1,1, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Angewandte Mikrookonometrie / Arbeitsmarktokonomik), language: English, abstract: Working time and wages represent two elementary components of economic welfare. Yet, in spite of both having witnessed signi cant changes during recent decades, economists have expended far greater efforts on probing changes in the structure of wages than on exploring trends in the composition of working hours. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period...