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'Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labour Market: The Mini-Job Reform in Germany

Bargain, Olivier; Caliendo, Marco; Haan, Peter; Orsini, … - 2005

reform using a behavioural tax-benefit microsimulation model. Ex-ante micro policy evaluations based on labour supply models …

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How should local governments tax local business? Lessons from an international comparison and a microsimulation analysis for Germany

Fossen, Frank M.; Bach, Stefan - 2007

countries actually represent the whole spectrum between these two extremes. We use a newly developed microsimulation model for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324247

Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? A microsimulation study for Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2008

minimum wage of € 7.5 per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324261

Data and model cross-validation to improve accuracy of microsimulation results: Estimates for the Polish household budget survey

Myck, Michal; Najsztub, Mateusz - 2014

representativeness from the point of view of microsimulation analysis. We find important discrepancies between the data weighted with … the point of view of the accuracy of microsimulation results and we show that using a combination of demographic … calibration targets with several economic status variables or tax identifiers from the microsimulation model substantially …

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Non-Take-Up of Means-Tested Social Benefits in Germany

Harnisch, Michelle - 2019

Unemployment Benefit II (Arbeitslosengeld II). Eligibility to these benefits is simulated by applying a microsimulation model based …

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To claim or not to claim: estimating non-take-up of social assistance in Germany and the role of measurement error

Frick, Joachim R.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007

Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the year 2002, we analyse non-take-up behaviour of Social Assistance (SA) in Germany. According to our simulation as much as 67 percent of the eligible population did not claim SA in that year which is slightly...

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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax …

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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts: A microsimulation analysis for Germany

Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced microdata from the German pension insurance. A microsimulation model is developed …

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Apply with Caution: Introducing UK-Style In-work Support in Germany

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michał - 2006

Estimates of labour supply effects of recent UK reforms in the area of direct taxes and benefits show that policy can have significant influence on the level of employment. We confirm this in a simulation of in-work support system introduced into the German tax and benefit system. Our simulation...

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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015

The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional...

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