whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue … rates, but in the longerterm only modest effects remain due to higher wages. …

system. The cohort effect, by contrast, results in winners and losers in PAYG systems. Taking Germany as an example and using …

We estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply, incorporating labor … market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. We find that in the absence of Germany's public long-term insurance …

relationships, meaning that households, for example, react to changes in the statutory pension system, such as the retirement age or …. One approach to parametrically reform the pension system would be linking (indexing) the retirement age systematically to … contributions and taxes. Moreover, with a rising retirement age and the associated longer periods of work, pension entitlements …

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …

This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step …, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two long run …