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Distributive impacts of social security financing in Brazil
Soares, Sergei; Bloch, Carolina - 2019
This paper seeks to estimate the distributive impact of the taxes and other fiscal contributions that finance social security in Brazil. Making a certain number of strong hypotheses relative to the fiscal incidence of social security financing, we compute a measure of incidence that aggregates...
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The effect of pension wealth on employment
Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2022
This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476768
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The effect of pension wealth on employment
Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2023
This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088379
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Redistribution and insurance in the German welfare state
Bartels, Charlotte - 2011
Welfare states redistribute both between individuals (inter-individual redistribution) reducing annual, cross-sectional inequality and over the lifecycle of an individual (intra-individual redistribution) insuring individuals against income risks in the long-term. But studies measuring...
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The state and income inequality in Brazil
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015
Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...
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Brazilian population and the social security system : reform alternatives
Beltrão, Kaizô Iwakami; Pinheiro, Sonoê Sugahara - 2015
This study analyses the situation of the Brazilian population vis-à-vis the Social Security System (SSS) using data from PNAD. We chose the 1982, 1992 and 2002 PNAD data to give a series of pictures of the Brazilian population at equal intervals but under different legal instances with respect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023819
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Exploring the puzzle of human reproduction : register data based evidence from France and Germany
Lipowski, Cäcilia; Wilke, Ralf A.; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2020
analyse and directly compare fertility patterns in two major European economies over a period of 15 years. Strong evidence is … found that opportunity costs play a role in fertility decisions, and for a positive income effect for females with high … earnings. Females in Germany adapt their fertility behaviour more strongly in response to economic incentives than their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222196
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The impact of a negative labor demand shock on fertility : evidence from the fall of the Berlin Wall
Liepmann, Hannah - 2018
How does a negative labor demand shock impact fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the East German … fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. I exploit differential pressure for restructuring across East …. Thus, the demand shock did not only depress the aggregate fertility level but also changed the composition of mothers. My …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899160
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Does the right to work part-time affect mothers' labor market outcomes?
Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah - 2024
This paper studies how the statutory right to work part-time affects mothers’ post-birth labor market outcomes. I use a differences-in-differences design to investigate a reform in Germany that granted the right to work part-time to employees of firms with more than 15 employees. I find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014548124
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A transfer mechanism for a monetary union
Engler, Philipp; Voigts, Simon - 2013
We show in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium framework that the introduction of a common currency by a group of countries with only partially integrated goods markets, incomplete financial markets and no labor migration across member states, significantly increases volatility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723588