Die finanzielle Situation pflegender Angehöriger in Deutschland ist zunehmend in den Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses gerückt, dabei wird insbesondere das erhöhte Armutsrisiko informell Pflegender kritisch diskutiert. Gleichzeitig zeichnet sich ab, dass die Bedeutung informeller Pflege...

We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced...

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...

This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax - transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current German tax and transfer system for single women...