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Probabilistic aging
Grafenhofer, Dominik; Jaag, Christian; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2006
The paper develops an overlapping generations model with probabilistic aging of households. We define age as a set of personal attributes such as earnings potential, health and tastes that are characteristic of a person's position in the life-cycle. In assuming a limited number of different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261425
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Probabilistic Aging
Grafenhofer, Dominik; Jaag, Christian; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2021
The paper develops an overlapping generations model with probabilistic aging of households. We define age as a set of personal attributes such as earnings potential, health and tastes that are characteristic of a person's position in the life-cycle. In assuming a limited number of different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318579
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Outsourcing, unemployment and welfare policy
Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - 2008
challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264480
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Corporate taxation and the welfare state
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2009
unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and … the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income risk. The unemployment rate partly reflects the country's exposure to … globalization; (ii) corporate taxation and social insurance have equivalent effects on unemployment and outbound FDI; (iii) while an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264567
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Outsourcing, Unemployment and Welfare Policy
Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - 2021
challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316451
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Pension Reform, Retirement and Life-Cycle Unemployment
Jaag, Christian; Keuschnigg, Christian; Keuschnigg, Mirela - 2021
The labor market effects of pension reform stem from retirement behavior and from job search and hours worked of prime age workers. This paper investigates the impact of four often proposed policy measures for sustainable pensions: strengthening the tax benefit link, moving from wage to price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316657