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Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...

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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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The Impact of Displacement on Child Health: Evidence from Colombia's DHS 2010

Wald, Nina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

This paper investigates the causal impact of displacement on health outcomes for Colombian children of different age … information about displacement of households. Two different empirical strategies are employed to identify the impact of … displacement on child health, namely a linear regression model and propensity score matching. In order to capture different …

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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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Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply

Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models of labour supply. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the...

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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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For Some Mothers More than Others: How Children Matter for Labour Market Outcomes When Both Fertility and Female Employment Are Low

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children. Among families with at least one child we identify 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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