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Child Benefit Reform and Labor Market Participation

Tamm, Marcus - 2009

This paper examines the impact of a change in the German child benefit system in 1996, which led to a large increase in lump sum transfers to families with children. We analyze the impact on the labor force participation of family members. Comparing behavioral changes of adults with children...

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Killing them with Kindness: Negative Distributional Externalities of Increasing UI Benefits

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Vorell, Matthias - 2009

Of the many labour market Hartz IV reforms that have been implemented in Germany since 2005, the role of short-term unemployment insurance has not received much attention. In this paper we examine distributional effects of labour earnings and unemployment benefits using simulated increases in...

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Informal Home Care and Labor Force Participation of Household Members

Meng, Annika - 2009

In Germany, informal home care is preferred to professional care services in the public discussion as well as in legal care regulations. However, they ascribe only minor importance to the opportunity costs care givers have to face. Therefore, this paper explores the influence home care has on...

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Push or pull? : measuring the labor supply response to the minimum wage using an individual-level panel

Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - In: Applied economics 54 (2022) 35, pp. 4043-4059

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The Effect of Saving Subsidies on Household Saving – Evidence from Germanys

Corneo, Giacomo; Keese, Matthias; Schröder, Carsten - 2010

Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax exemptions - the so-called Riester scheme. We apply matching and panel regression techniques to assess the impact of the Riester scheme on households' propensities to save in a...

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Long-term care reform and the labor supply of household members: Evidence from a quasi-experiment

Geyer, Johannes; Korfhage, Thorben - 2015

eigenständige Säule der Sozialversicherung und ersetzte ein System der einkommensabhängigen Sozialhilfe. Leistungen der neuen … Opportunitätskosten, die entstehen, wenn Pflegende ihr Arbeitsangebot reduzieren, um die Doppelbelastung aus Pflege und Lohnarbeit … abzuschwächen. Wir nutzen die Reform als Quasi-Experiment und untersuchen ihren Einfluss auf das Arbeitsangebot von Pflegenden, die …

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Indirect fiscal effects of long-term care insurance

Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Korfhage, Thorben - 2015

Arbeitsangebot reduzieren, um auf die Doppelbelastung aus Pflege und Lohnarbeit zu reagieren. Dies führt zu geringeren …

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Long-term Care Insurance and Carers' Labor Supply - A Structural Model

Geyer, Johannes; Korfhage, Thorben - 2014

durch ein reduziertes Arbeitsangebot der Pflegenden entstehen können. Wir untersuchen deshalb die Veränderungen der …

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Child Benefit Reform and Labor Market Participation

Tamm, Marcus - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

This paper examines the impact of a change in the German child benefit system in 1996, which led to a large increase in lump sum transfers to families with children.We analyze the impact on the labor force participation of family members. Comparing behavioral changes of adults with children with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005178229

Social Jealousy and Stigma: Negative Externalities of Social Assistance Payments in Germany

Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2009

This paper examines the role of social assistance payments (SAP or Sozialhilfe) in determining levels of life …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274379