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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
In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal … feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer system which differs by employment state and number of children. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461827
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Health-Related Life Cycle Risks and Public Insurance
Kemptner, Daniel - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation … health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685901
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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195630
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A Lost Generation? Long Term Socioeconomic Outcomes in Orphans
Bozzoli, Carlos - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting "imprint" in terms of employment and fertility patterns. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682203
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Long-Term Care Insurance and Carers' Labor Supply: A Structural Model
Geyer, Johannes; Korfhage, Thorben - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
In Germany, individuals in need of long-term care receive support through benefits of the long-term care insurance. A central goal of the insurance is to support informal care provided by family members. Care recipients can choose between benefits in kind (formal home care services) and benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942858
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Long-Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime
Pannenberg, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on average at least a 10 percentage points higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018670
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Demographic Change, Endogenous Labor Supply and the Political Feasibility of Pension Reform
Breyer, Friedrich; Stolte, Klaus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018680
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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
maternal employment than a reduction of parents' fees to existing slots. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360170
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368912
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Bayesian Procedures as a Numerical Tool for the Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Uhlendorff, Arne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Dynamic discrete choice models usually require a general specification of unobserved heterogeneity. In this paper, we apply Bayesian procedures as a numerical tool for the estimation of a female labor supply model based on a sample size which is typical for common household panels. We provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551078