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A Switch from Joint to Individual Taxation Is Welfare Improving

Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

In this paper we empirically derive the welfare effects of a shift from joint taxation with full income splitting to a revenue neutral system of individual taxation in Germany. For the empirical welfare evaluation we estimate the preference heterogeneity in the population and use normative...

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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 … discrete choice panel data model controlling for unobserved heterogeneity to simultaneously estimate labor supply and the … demand for child care of German mothers with at least one child under the age of seven years. The model can be used to …

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Alternative Measures of the Explanatory Power of Multivariate Probit Models with Continuous or Ordinal Responses

Spieß, Martin; Tutz, Gerhard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

In this paper R2-type measures of the explanatory power of multivariate linear and categorical probit models proposed in the literature are reviewed and their deficiencies are discussed. It is argued that a measure of the explanatory power should take into account the components which are...

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The Excess Demand for Subsidized Child Care in Germany

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

excess demand for subsidized child care slots is estimated using a partial observability model in the style of Abowd and …

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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

"Marginal Employment", i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade. Using a large newly available panel data set and statistical matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal...

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GEE Estimation of a Two-Equation Panel Data Model: An Analysis of Wage Dynamics and the Incidence of Profit-Sharing in West Germany

Pannenberg, Markus; Spieß, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

We propose a generalized estimating equations approach to the analysis of the mean and the covariance structure of a bivariate time series process of panel data with mixed continuous and discrete dependent variables. The approach is used to jointly analyze wage dynamics and the incidence of...

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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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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

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period...

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From No Pay to Low Pay and Back Again?: A Multi-State Model of Low Pay Dynamics

Uhlendorff, Arne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

This study analyzes the mobility between three labor market states: working in low paid jobs, working in higher paid jobs and not working. Using German panel data I estimate dynamic multinomial logit panel data models with random effects taking the initial conditions problem and potential...

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