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Biased wage expectations and female labor supply
Blesch, Maximilian; Eisenhauer, Philipp; Haan, Peter; … - 2023
Wage growth occurs almost exclusively in full-time work, whereas it is close to zero in part-time work. German women, when asked to predict their own potential wage outcomes, show severely biased expectations with strong over-optimism about the returns to part-time experience. We estimate a...
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2019
Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. We study how the tax-and-transfer system o sets inequalities in lifetime earnings, which would otherwise translate into differences in living standards. Based on a life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012108653
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023
Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax-and-transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life-cycle model, we determine that taxes and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014427523
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Hours risk and wage risk : repercussions over the life-cycle
Jessen, Robin; König, Johannes - 2020
We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we formulate a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145317
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On household labour supply in sticky-wage HANK models
Gerke, Rafael; Giesen, Sebastian; Lozej, Matija; … - 2024 - November 24, 2023
Heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian models with sticky nominal wages usually assume that wage-setting unions demand the …, wages and inflation to monetary policy shocks becomes notably less pronounced. This attenuation reflects that hours worked … modification substantially lowers the effective stickiness of nominal wages, resulting in markedly different wage and inflation …
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A note on automation, stagnation, and the implications of a robot tax
Gasteiger, Emanuel; Prettner, Klaus - 2017
that it does not have the potential to lead to positive long-growth. The reason is that automation suppresses wages, which …
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Longevity and patience
Falk, Armin; Hermle, Johannes; Sunde, Uwe - 2019
Why does patience vary across individuals and countries? We provide evidence on a widely-hypothesized mechanism, namely that higher longevity fosters patience. Using data on patience for 80,000 individuals in 76 countries, this paper relates exogenous variation in longevity across...
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How do workers adjust when firms adopt new technologies?
Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Janser, Markus; Lehmer, … - 2021
We investigate how workers adjust to firms’ investments into new digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, augmented reality, or 3D printing. For this, we collected novel data that links survey information on firms’ technology adoption to administrative social security data....
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Monopsony and the wage effects of migration
Amior, Michael; Manning, Alan - 2020
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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2015
We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...
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