This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation … in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a … health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance …

address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment …, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the …

maternal employment than a reduction of parents' fees to existing slots. …

the demand for child care as well as on maternal employment than a reduction of parents' fees to existing slots. …

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 …

educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting "imprint" in terms of employment and fertility patterns. …

future net-income risks. The uncertainty measure takes into account the interdependency of labour market status and health …

Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We … find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of …

We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across … which accounts for cohort effects in individual employment and unemployment and earnings over the lifecycle as well as the … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …

This paper provides empirical evidence how the timing of employment breaks affects pension benefits in Germany …. Analysing the biographical data set from the German Pension Insurance (SUF VVL 2004) the employment histories of individuals … aged 21 to 60 can be mirrored in detail. We relate differences in pension benefits to employment breaks due to unemployment …