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place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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comparison, more explicit. On the basis of microdata from the Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) for married couples in Germany, we …
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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 …
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undergoing fundamental reforms in many Western countries. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension …
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This paper uses administrative data to investigate how a change in pension wealth affects a mother's employment decision after child birth. I exploit the extension of the child care pension benefit in 1992 as a natural experiment in a regression discontinuity design to estimate short- and...
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in Germany, economic consequences of differences in this non-cognitive skill can be expected to be larger in other …
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