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Pension wealth and maternal employment : evidence from a reform of the German child care pension benefit

Thiemann, Andreas - 2015 - Ausgabebezeichnung

This paper uses administrative data to investigate how a change in pension wealth affects a mother’s employment decision after child birth. I exploit the extension of the child care pension benefit in 1992 as a natural experiment in a regression discontinuity design to estimate short- and...

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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the evaluation of labor market policies

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014

Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe variables that affect both treatment participation and labor...

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Policy evaluation of waste pricing programs using heterogeneous causal effect estimation

Valente, Marica - 2021

social cost savings for each municipality. Social welfare effects are positive for all municipalities after three years of …

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Building the minimum wage : Germany's first sectoral minimum wage and its impact on wages in the construction industry

Rattenhuber, Pia - 2011

The very first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the construction industry. In the setting of a natural experiment blue-collar workers in neighboring 4-digit-industries and white-collar workers are used as control groups for...

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Do the sick retire early? : chronic illness, asset accumulation and early retirement

Miah, M. Solaiman; Wilcox-Gök, Virginia Louise - In: Applied economics 39 (2007) 13/15, pp. 1921-1936

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Re-examining the decline in the US saving rate : the impact of mortgage equity withdrawal

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Costantini, Mauro; Paradiso, … - 2012

In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may affect the saving rate. We estimate a Vector Error...

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Does macroeconomic policy affect private savings in Europe? : Evidence from a dynamic panel data model

Schrooten, Mechtild (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Estimating permanent income and wealth of the US farm households

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Social security privatization and financial market risk : lessons from US financial history

Burtless, Gary - 2000

hypothetical pensions U.S. workers would have obtained between 1911 and 1999 if they had accumulated retirement savings in … with a new system of mandatory defined-contribution private pensions. Proponents claim that private plans offer better … present in certain types of public retirement system, but a public system has one important advantage over private pensions …

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