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Profitability of Pension Contributions: Evidence from Real-Life Employment Biographies

Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

partner. Due to survivor pensions, married insurants benefit from higher IRR as compared to the non-married. Interestingly …

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Rates of Return and Early Retirement Disincentives: Evidence from a German Pension Reform

Lüthen, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

To counteract the financial pressure emerging in aging societies, statutory pay-as-you-go pension schemes are undergoing fundamental reforms in many Western countries. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the...

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Public Pensions, Changing Employment Patterns, and the Impact of Pension Reforms across Birth Cohorts: A Microsimulation Analysis for Germany

Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across …-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced microdata from the German pension insurance. A microsimulation model is developed … pensions across cohorts taking into account changing demographics and recent pension reforms. Simulations show that pension …

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Distributional and Behavioral Effects of the Gender Wage Gap

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional...

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Financial Support for Families with Children and Its Trade-Offs: Balancing Redistribution and Parental Work Incentives

Myck, Michal; Kurowska, Anna; Kundera, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In the end these trade-offs determine the effectiveness of policy with respect to the material situation of families and employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of...

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Data and Model Cross-Validation to Improve Accuracy of Microsimulation Results: Estimates for the Polish Household Budget Survey

Myck, Michal; Najsztub, Mateusz - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

representativeness from the point of view of microsimulation analysis. We find important discrepancies between the data weighted with … the point of view of the accuracy of microsimulation results and we show that using a combination of demographic … calibration targets with several economic status variables or tax identifiers from the microsimulation model substantially …

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Family and Labor Market Choices: Requirements to Guide Effective Evidence-Based Policy

Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Microsimulation methods and models of labor market decisions have attracted a lot of attention as an approach to the …

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The Impact of Income Taxation on the Ratio between Reservation and Market Wages and the Incentives for Labour Supply

Caliendo, Marco; Gambaro, Ludovica; Haan, Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper extends previous research about the determinants of reservation wages by analysing the effect of progressive income taxation on the ratio between reservation and net market wages. Based on micro data for Germany (SOEP) we show that joint income taxation in Germany which discriminates...

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Intertemporal Labor Supply Effects of Tax Reforms

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

In the year 2000, the German government passed the most ambitious tax reform in post-war German history aiming at a significant tax relief for households. One central aim of this tax reform was to improve work incentives and, thereby, foster employment. In this paper, I estimate an intertemporal...

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Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty?: A Microsimulation Study for Germany

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

minimum wage of € 7.5 per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between …

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