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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Receipt: Measurement and Modelling Issues, with an Application to Britain

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

We model the dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt in Britain using data from the British Household Panel Survey, waves 1-15. First, we discuss definitions of social assistance benefit receipt, and present information about the trends between 1991 and 2005 in the receipt of social...

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Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence

Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...

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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper presents an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...

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Modelling Low Income Transitions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a nonrandom sample) and for attrition (panel retention may also be non-random). Our econometric model is a form of...

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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963799

The Excess Demand for Subsidized Child Care in Germany

Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

The extension of subsidized child care is currently on the top of the political agenda in Germany. In this paper the excess demand for subsidized child care slots is estimated using a partial observability model in the style of Abowd and Farber (1982). The results show that more than 50 percent...

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Distributional and Welfare Effects of Germany's Year 2000 Tax Reform

Ochmann, Richard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

is estimated in a structural model for household savings and asset demand applied to German survey data. Significant … savings and alter the structure of asset demand as a result of shifts in relative asset prices. As a consequence, utility …

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Differential Income Taxation and Household Asset Allocation

Ochmann, Richard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper empirically investigates the effects of differential income taxation on households' portfolio choice and asset allocation applying a two-stage budgeting model of asset demand to German survey data. The model is structured into the discrete asset choice and the continuous asset choice,...

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Household Savings Decision and Income Uncertainty

Beznoska, Martin; Ochmann, Richard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

uncertainty on households' consumption-savings decision. Applying a structural demand model to German survey data, we estimate the … uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in line with the literature, to around zero. Accordingly, any policy …-induced variation of net returns to savings is expected to have no significant effects on the level of savings. Moreover, we find …

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Liquidity Constraints and the Permanent Income Hypothesis: Pseudo Panel Estimation with German Consumption Survey Data

Beznoska, Martin; Ochmann, Richard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

This paper empirically investigates the relevance of liquidity constraints and excess sensitivity in intertemporal household consumption. Using a pseudo panel that has been constructed on rich German consumption survey data, we estimate the consumption responses to permanent and transitory...

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