Tax mimicking in the short- and the long-run: Evidence from German reunification [PDF]
, 2015 This paper uses the quasi-experiment of Germany's reunification to identify local tax mimicking by municipalities in Eastern-Germany. After reunification, East-German municipalities were allowed to independently set, for the first time in decades, local ...
Baskaran, Thushyanthan
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Facets of Crises: How Problem Indicators and Public Perceptions Affect Policy Change
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Crises are widely acknowledged as catalysts for policy change. Yet, our understanding of the policy effects of crises remains limited. Why do only some crises lead to major changes, while significant policy changes also occur during seemingly non‐crisis periods?
Constantin Kaplaner +6 more
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Tax mimicking in the short- and long-run: Evidence from German reunification [PDF]
, 2015 This paper uses the quasi-experiment of Germany´s reunification to identify local tax mimicking by municipalities in Eastern-Germany. After reunification, East-German municipalities were allowed to independently set, for the first time in decades, local ...
Baskaran, Thushyanthan
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A Complexity‐Based Approach to Migration Policy Change: The Case of the German Residence Act
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper adapts and applies existing indicators to measure the complexity of German migration policy over time. Building on recent scholarship that conceptualizes migration policy as multidimensional, I adapt a measurement strategy from the EUPLEX Project to capture three key components of regulatory complexity: structural, linguistic, and ...
Pau Palop‐García
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The Fiscal Burden of Korean Reunification: A Generational Accounting Approach [PDF]
This paper uses Generational Accounting to assess the fiscal impacts of Korean reunification. Our findings suggest that early reunification will result in a large increase in the fiscal burden for most current and future generations of South Koreans. The
Young Jun Chun +2 more
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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The importance of regional availability of health care for old age survival - Findings from German reunification. [PDF]
Popul Health Metr, 2015 Vogt TC, Vaupel JW.
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The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) in the Nineties: An Example of Incremental Innovations in an Ongoing Longitudinal Study [PDF]
The main aim of the present paper is to historically reappraise the development of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) in the 1990s after the first six waves had been collected.
Gert G. Wagner
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Socioeconomic developments in high‐income countries since the postwar era have induced fundamental changes in the predominant social risks to which people are exposed. This article seeks to determine whether this evolution is accompanied by changing expectations of the welfare state.
Andrew Zola
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