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Competitive Pressure and Corporate Crime

Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

This paper explores the relationship between the intensity of competition in product markets and firms' incentives to lower their production costs by illegal means. Our framework combines a Salop circle with a crime model la Becker, allowing us to differentiate between several measures for the...

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Over-aging - Are present human populations too old?

Stelter, Robert - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

This paper investigates the problem of an ``optimum population'' with respect to the age structure. Within a 3-period OLG model, with endogenous fertility and longevity, the optimal age structure, identified by number-dampened total utilitarianism, is generally failed in the laissez-faire...

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Parental Benefits and Mothers Labor Market Outcomes in the Medium Run

Schmitz, Sebastian; Kluve, Jochen - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

Increasing mothers labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smooth- ing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...

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Are 12 Years of Schooling Sufficient for Preparation for Tertiary Education? Evidence from the Reform of Secondary School Duration in Germany

Meyer, Tobias; Thomsen, Stephan - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

An important education reform in Germany reduced the duration of university preparatory schooling from 13 to 12 years, but left the curriculum unchanged. In the state of Saxony-Anhalt the reform was completed in 2007 with a double cohort of graduates, providing a natural experiment. We use...

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Two steps forward - one step back? Evaluating recent child care policies in Germany

Wrohlich, Katharina; Müller, Kai-Uwe - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

In August 2013, two child care reforms have come into effect at the same time: First, a legal claim to formal child care has been introduced for all children aged one year or older. Second, a new benefit called Betreuungsgeld has been introduced that is granted to families who do not use public...

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The Effect of Early Universal Daycare on Child Weight Problems

Lauber, Verena; Thomas, Lampert - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

As the number of young children in daycare increases, people start to worry about the effect of early non-parental care. This is of special relevance as investments in the early periods of life are shown to be most important for a child’s long term development. Based on the German national...

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Earnings-Dependent Parental Leave Benefit and Fertility: Evidence from Germany

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

This paper examines the effects of a major change in German parental transfer system on fertility. I use the largely unanticipated reform of 2007 as a natural experiment to assess how an earnings-dependent parental leave benefit effects higher-order fertility. Given the recent introduction, this...

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From Gross Wages to Net Household Income: a Distributional Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap

Gallego Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

Numerous studies analyze gender wage differences focusing on gross hourly wages. The analysis of differences in gross … is often attributed to discrimination. While there is plenty evidence that the gender (gross) wage gap is a persistent …

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Social Norms or Income Taxation - What Drives Couple's Labor Supply? Experimental Evidence

Schröder, Melanie; Schmitt, Norma; Mantei, Britta; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

(i.e. number of solved mazes) serving as our proxy for labor supply. We demonstrate that gender identity and (dis …

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Is there a Gender Gap in Preferences for Public Spending? Evidence from Germany

Haußen, Tina - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

In several empirical contributions researchers have found a gender gap in preferences for public spending. This paper … analyzes the persistence of these gender gaps when income differences between individuals are taken into consideration. Using … survey data from the years 1996 and 2006 of German respondents, we show that gender gaps in preferences vanish when we …

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