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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

social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on … Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income floor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …-related Unemployment Insurance. Reflecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …

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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

We conduct detailed analysis of the Polish Household Budget Survey data for the years 2006-2011 with the focus on its …

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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...

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Fairness of Public Pensions and Old-Age Poverty

Breyer, Friedrich; Hupfeld, Stefan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

In several OECD countries, public pay-as-you-go financed pension systems have undergone major reforms in which future retirement benefit promises have been scaled down. A consequence of these reforms is that especially in countries with a tight tax-benefit linkage, the retirement benefit claims...

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Take It or Leave It: (Non-) Take-up Behavior of Social Assistance in Germany

Kayser, Hilke Almut; Frick, Joachim R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

likely to remain unclaimed. In light of likely measurement errors in income and in our simulation of household needs, we …

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Die sozioökonomischen Folgen eines einkommensabhängigen Kindergeldzuschlags: eine Mikrosimulation der "Grünen Kindergrundsicherung"

Otto, Birgit - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

Nach den Ergebnissen des ersten Armuts- und Reichtumsberichts der Bundesregierung ist das Armutsrisiko von Kindern unter 18 Jahren wesentlich höher als das anderer Altersgruppen. Um die überdurchschnittliche hohe Sozialhilfequote von Kindern zu senken, regten Bündnis 90/Die Grünen im...

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Beschäftigungsförderung und Einkommenssicherung im Niedriglohnbereich: Wege und Irrwege

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

Staatliche Instrumente zur Beschäftigungsförderung und Einkommenssicherung im Niedriglohnbereich durch "Kombilohn-Modelle" existieren auch in Deutschland schon seit längerem und wurden im Zuge der jüngsten Arbeitsmarktreformen ausgeweitet. Diese haben das Ziel, durch eine...

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To Claim or Not to Claim: Estimating Non-take-up of Social Assistance in Germany and the Role of Measurement Error

Frick, Joachim R.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

revealing the impact of measurement errors in reported household income and wealth as well as in simulated needs. Misreported … household incomes appear to have the greatest impact on the estimated non-take-up rates, as shown in Monte …

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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 …

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Poverty in Germany: Statistical Inference and Decomposition

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

-temporal changes in poverty from year 1978 to 2003. Results are decomposed by region and household types, and the bootstrap method is … applied to test for the statistical significance of all our findings. Across household types, single parents with children …

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