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Do hours restrictions matter? : a discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions

Wolf, Elke - 1998

The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is determined by the leisure of the two spouses and net household income. Furthermore,...

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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?

Wolf, Elke - 2000

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …

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Welfare analysis of fiscal reforms : does the representation of the family decision process matter?

Beninger, Denis - 2003

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The rise of part-time work : a German-French comparison

Marotzke, Petra - 2019

I study possible determinants of part-time employment among women in France and Germany using microdata of the Labour … Force Survey. Voluntary part-time work is substantially more widespread among women in Germany than it is in France … both countries, their impact is substantially greater in Germany. Controlling for several factors, the probability of …

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Promotion prospects and within-level wage growth : a decomposition of the part-time penalty for women

Ilieva, Boryana - 2023

I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage penalty. Using dynamic structural modeling, I...

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How important is precautionary labor supply?

Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2016

We quantify the importance of precautionary labor supply using data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) for 2001-2012. We estimate dynamic labor supply equations augmented with a measure of wage risk. Our results show that married men choose about 2.5% of their hours of work or one week...

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The effects of Germany's new minimum wage on employment and welfare dependency

Schmitz, Sebastian - 2017

In January 2015, Germany introduced a federal, statutory minimum wage of 8.50 € per hour. This study evaluates the …

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ZEW-EviSTA : a microsimulation model of the German tax and transfer system

Buhlmann, Florian; Hebsaker, Michael; Kreuz, Tobias; … - 2022 - First version: June 2022

This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating fiscal effects, labor market outcomes as well as...

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Reforming social welfare in Germany : an applied general equilibrium analysis

Boeters, Stefan - 2003

This paper analyses the effects of a social assistance reform in Germany. In contrast to studies which are based on …

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Lower wages for less hours? : a simultaneous wage-hours model for Germany

Wolf, Elke - 2000

In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a simultaneous wage-hours model which takes into account the participation decision. First, our estimates show that the hourly wage rate is strongly affected by the working hours. In...

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