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The effects of an increase in the retirement age on health : evidence from administrative data
Barschkett, Mara; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; … - 2021
-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort …-dimensionality in these health effects. The empirical findings reflect the multi-dimensionality but allow for deriving two broader …
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ZEW-EviSTA : a microsimulation model of the German tax and transfer system
Buhlmann, Florian; Hebsaker, Michael; Kreuz, Tobias; … - 2022 - First version: June 2022
This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating fiscal effects, labor market outcomes as well as...
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Gender norms and labor-supply expectations : experimental evidence from adolescents
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2020
Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with the arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link … between gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a … norm towards mothers significantly reduce girls’ self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender …
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On household labour supply in sticky-wage HANK models
Gerke, Rafael; Giesen, Sebastian; Lozej, Matija; … - 2024 - November 24, 2023
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)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467926
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Hours risk and wage risk : repercussions over the life-cycle
Jessen, Robin; König, Johannes - 2020
We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we formulate a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Both...
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Do hours restrictions matter? : a discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions
Wolf, Elke - 1998
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428181
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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?
Wolf, Elke - 2000
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428359
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Sources of German unemployment : evidence from a structural VAR model
Linzert, Tobias - 2001
This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428423
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Do women expect wage cuts for part-time work?
Schrenker, Annekatrin - 2020
Wage expectations for full- and part-time employment are key for understanding the labor supply decisions of women. However, whether women expect different wages between part-time and full-time work is not fully understood. Using German survey data, I quantify the expected full-time/part-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285506
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The rise of part-time work : a German-French comparison
Marotzke, Petra - 2019
I study possible determinants of part-time employment among women in France and Germany using microdata of the Labour … Force Survey. Voluntary part-time work is substantially more widespread among women in Germany than it is in France …. Estimation results show that while the presence of children and marital status are related to the choice to work part time in …
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