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Employment Effects of Welfare Reforms : Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L.; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2008
place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218127
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Optimal Income Taxation of Married Couples : An Empirical Analysis of Joint and Individual Taxation
Haan, Peter; Navarro, Dolores - 2009
In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206666
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance : Evidence from a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2023
We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity by age, education, wealth, sex and household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347680
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Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings
Haan, Peter - 2017
We analyze empirically the optimal mix and optimal generosity of social insurance and assistance programs. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971961
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The Design of Unemployment Transfers : Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model
Haan, Peter - 2010
In this paper we use a dynamic structural life-cycle model to analyze the employment, fiscal and welfare effects induced by unemployment insurance. The model features a detailed specification of the tax and transfer system, including unemployment insurance benefits which depend on an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141472
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Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009
In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201878
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A Structural Approach to Estimating the Effect of Taxation on the Labor Market Dynamics of Older Workers
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2009
We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous accumulation of human capital and intertemporal non-separabilities in preferences. Additionally, the model accounts for the effect of the tax and transfer system on work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206524
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Konjunktur aktuell : Deutsche Wirtschaft noch nicht immun gegen COVID 19 : Ausblick erneut eingetrübt
Brautzsch, Hans-Ulrich; Drygalla, Andrej; Exß, Franziska; … - Arbeitskreis Konjunktur des IWH - In: Konjunktur aktuell 9 (2021) 4, pp. 98-140
des Corona-Zwischentiefs im Sommer ließ die Erholung der privaten Konsumnachfrage die Produktion in Deutschland kräftig … Bruttoinlandsprodukt in Deutschland im Jahr 2021 um 2,7% steigen. Ab dem Frühjahr dürften die Infektionszahlen jahreszeitlich bedingt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704995
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Gender Identity and Womens' Supply of Labor and Non-Market Work : Panel Data Evidence for Germany
Wieber, Anna - 2015
Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012272
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Locus of Control and Mothers' Return to Employment
Berger, Eva M. - 2016
in Germany, economic consequences of differences in this non-cognitive skill can be expected to be larger in other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989342