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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets: what are the driving forces?

Boeters, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other hand, the individual labour supply decision is … progressivity is below the actual level. A decomposition approach shows that the optimal level is increased by high unemployment and …

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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets: Simulation results for Germany

Boeters, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity …

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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An Analysis Based on Individual Data

Schleife, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

This paper analyzes computer use by older male employees and estimates the impact of computer use on their employment status, based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the years 1997 and 2001. In line with previous research on the diffusion of new technologies, a...

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Reduction in the Long-Term Unemployment of the Elderly: A Success Story from Finland

Kyyrä, Tomi; Wilke, Ralf A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

In Finland the elderly unemployed are allowed to collect unemployment benefits up to the age of 60, when they can … retire via a particular unemployment pension. In 1997 the eligibility age of persons benefiting from this scheme was raised … from 53 to 55. We consider changes in the risk of unemployment, unemployment durations, and the exit states before and …

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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An analysis Based on Individual Data

Schleife, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

This paper analyzes the determinants of computer use by male employees and estimates the impact of computer use on the employment status for older workers, based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). In line with previous research on the diffusion of new technologies,...

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Specific measures for older employees and late career employment

Boockmann, Bernhard; Fries, Jan; Göbel, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

We analyse the effects of specific measures for older employees (SMOE) on employment duration of workers aged 40 and above. Using longitudinal employer-employee data for German establishments, we account for worker and establishment heterogeneity and correct for stock-sampling. We find a...

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Completed fertility effects of family policy measures: Evidence from a life-cycle model

Abiry, Raphael; Reuss, Karsten; Stichnoth, Holger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a number of key family policy measures based on data for Germany. Parental leave benefits, child benefits and subsidized childcare are found to have substantial fertility...

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Causal effects on employment after first birth: A dynamic treatment approach

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin; Steffes, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity...

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Circumstantial risk: Impact of future tax evasion and labor supply opportunities on risk exposure

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Duncan, Denvil; Zeppenfeld, … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper examines whether risk-taking in a lottery depends on the opportunity to respond to the lottery outcome through additional labor effort and/or tax evasion. Previous empirical attempts to answer this question face identification issues due to self selection into jobs that facilitate tax...

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Short-run fertility effects of parental leave benefits: Evidence from a structural model

Stichnoth, Holger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a...

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