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over cohorts on the distribution of net wealth we impose the homeownership pattern of the US on Germany and ask: What would …In this empirical paper we analyze the link between homeownership across cohorts and the net wealth distribution. In … the net wealth distribution in Germany look like if German households were distributed across tenure status along cohorts …
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In this paper, we study the relationship between intrahousehold bargaining styles, bar-gaining power and individual pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household Finances (PHF) survey. The paper builds on a theoretical...
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-sectional survey data on expenditures and individual incomes of couple households in Germany. The test is performed within the …
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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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We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...
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Heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian models with sticky nominal wages usually assume that wage-setting unions demand the same amount of hours from all households. As a result, unions do not take account of the fact that (i) households are heterogeneous in their willingness to work, and that (ii)...
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