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Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment: An Ex-ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany

Schmitz, Hendrik; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

compensation system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated …

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Imposed Benefit Sanctions and the Unemployment-to-Employment Transition: The German Experience

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …

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Konzentration statt Verzettelung: die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik am Scheideweg

Schneider, Hilmar; Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

, training measures and financial incentives for business start-ups. It is essential to increase incentives, intensify …

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The Design of Unemployment Transfers: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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...

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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

public pension system. We calculate that, in the case of Germany, the fiscal consequences of the 6.4 year increase in age 65 …

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Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility?: Evidence from a Structural Model

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility …

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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 - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

of the tax and transfer system on work incentives. The structural parameter estimates are used to evaluate the effects of …

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"Marginal Employment": Stepping Stone or Dead End? Evaluating the German Experience

Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. …

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Optimal Taxation: The Design of Child Related Cash- and In-Kind-Benefits

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current German tax and transfer system for single women...

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Self-Employment - a Way to End Unemployment?: Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

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