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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform

Clauss, Markus - 2009

earn high wages and received high unemployment transfers lose most. The behavioural responses mitigate the redistributive …

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Asymmetric Labor-Supply Responses to Wage-Rate Changes - Evidence from a Field Experiment

Dörrenberg, Philipp - 2017

The standard labor-supply literature typically assumes that the labor supply response to wage increases is the same as that for equivalent wage decreases. However, evidence from the behavioral-economics literature suggests that people are loss averse and thus perceive losses differently than...

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Structural Labor Supply Models and Wage Exogeneity

Loeffler, Max - 2014

elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be explained by modeling assumptions with respect to wages. Specifically … very sensitive to the treatment of wages. In particular, the often-made but highly restrictive independence assumption … between preferences and wages is key. To overcome this restriction, we propose a flexible estimation strategy that nests …

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Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions – An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions Employment?

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas; Boockmann, Bernhard - 2009

During the last two decades many countries have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of shifting labor market policies from passive benefit receipt towards increased job search and work requirements. As part of this shift benefit sanctions are increasingly being used in the activation...

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An Unconditional Basic Income in the Family Context - Labor Supply and Distributional Effects

Horstschräer, Julia - 2011

In this paper we estimate the effects of an unconditional basic income on labor supply and income distribution with a special focus on the incentives to work in the family context. An unconditional basic income guarantees every citizen a minimum income without any means-testing. We simulate a...

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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities : A Survey

Bargain, Olivier - 2013

Previous reviews of static labor supply estimations concentrate mainly on the evidence from the 1980s and 1990s, Anglo-Saxon countries and early generations of labor supply modeling. This paper provides a fresh characterization of steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe and the...

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Marital Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labor Supply : Evidence from East and West Germany

Pestel, Nico - 2015

This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past three decades, while explicitly taking into account labor supply choices. Using rich micro data, the observed distribution of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual...

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Heterogeneous Labour Markets in a Microsimulation-Age Model : Application to Welfare Reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan - 2009

Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...

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Optimal Tax Progressivity in Unionised Labour Markets : What are the Driving Forces?

Boeters, Stefan - 2010

a downward pressure on non-competitive wages. This counteracts the labour supply distortions and creates the potential …

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Analysing Welfare Reform in a Microsimulation-Age Model : The Value of Disaggregation

Arntz, Melanie; Boeters, Stefan; Gürtzgen, Nicole; … - 2008

We present a combined, consistent microsimulation-AGE model that uses the labour market model PACE-L, data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and a discrete choice labour supply estimation. The model is used to analyse a reform that cuts the social assistance minimum income and lowers the...

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