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incentives for lower income classes and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on … annual income concepts. This paper analyzes how work incentives inherent in the German tax-benefit system evolve when … incentives increased even more than short-term work incentives. Particularly for middle-income individuals, this is largely …
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. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take … up work. Using German microdata over the period 1993-2010 we find that recent reforms in Germany increased work … incentives at the extensive margin measured by the Participation Tax Rate (PTR), particularly for low-income individuals. Work …
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We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and...
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Although a meaningful percentage of firms are created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment insurance (UI) generosity for selfemployment. By using...
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while unemployed and the subsequent firms’ success. To do so, we create a comprehensive dataset on founders in Germany that …
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Although a relevant share of firms is created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment insurance (UI) generosity for self-employment. By using...
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Business creation is economically important, and unemployment precedes the creation of a substantial share of new firms. Yet, most research has focused on analyzing the effects of unemployment insurance policies on re-employment outcomes, ignoring self-employment. In this paper, we analyze how...
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Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing oneś job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in...
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Due to its extraordinary explanatory power for individual behavior, the interest in the concept of locus of control (LOC) has increased substantially within applied economic research. But, even though LOC has been found to affect economic behavior in many ways, the reliability of these findings...
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’ careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany …
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