1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 16-003 // 2016

    Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany

    This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities. Administrative linked employer-employee data allows estimating heterogeneous worker and firrm…

  2. Discussion und Working Paper // 2016

    Do Savings Increase in Response to Salient Information about Retirement and Expected Pensions?

    How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 16-092 // 2016

    IT Outsourcing and Firm Productivity: Eliminating Bias from Selective Missingness in the Dependent Variable

    Missing values are a major problem in all econometric applications based on survey data. A standard approach assumes data are missing-at-random and uses imputation methods, or even listwise deletion. This…

  4. Discussion und Working Paper // 2016

    An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area? A Comparison of Different Alternatives using Micro Data

    We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed and assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric…