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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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Do Ethnic Minorities "Stretch" Their Time?: Evidence from the UK Time Use Survey

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure … activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to "stretch" their … time the most by an additional 233 minutes per day and non-white men "stretch" their time the least. The three secondary …

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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey … and influencing time spent for "traditional" female activities is of particular interest. The paper finds that white … more time for religious activities and, to some extent, for food management than white females, while there are no ethnic …

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Are Interregional Wage Differentials in Russia Compensative?

Oshchepkov, Aleksey - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Interregional differentials in nominal wages in the Russian Federation are huge compared to other countries. Using the NOBUS micro-data and a methodology based on the estimation of the wage equation augmented by aggregate regional characteristics, we show that these differentials have a...

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Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined?: Evidence from British Immigrants

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...

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Using Job Changes to Evaluate the Bias of the Value of a Statistical Life

Spengler, Hannes; Schaffner, Sandra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper presents a new approach to obtain unbiased estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) with labor market data. Investigating job changes, we combine the advantages of recent panel studies, which allow to control for unobserved heterogeneity of workers, and conventional...

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