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Does consumption decline at retirement? : evidence from repeated cross-section data for Germany

Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2012

The life-cycle hypothesis implies that consumption would not decline at retirement. However, several studies found relevant declines in food consumption after retirement for the United States. Others concluded that this contradiction of the life-cycle hypothesis is solved by allowing for broader...

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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts : a microsimulation analysis for Germany

Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across … pensions across cohorts taking into account changing demographics and recent pension reforms. Simulations show that pension … increasing or stable due to rising labor market participation of younger birth cohorts. -- Public pensions ; cohort effects …

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Self-employment - a way to end unemployment? : empirical evidence from German pseudo-panel data

Glocker, Daniela (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period...

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"Marginal employment" and the demand for heterogenous labour : empirical evidence from a multi-factor labour demand model for Germany

Freier, Ronny (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007

We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eight labour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hours using a new panel data set. For...

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The incidence of the European Union Emissions Trading System and the role of revenue recycling : empirical evidence from combined industry- and household-level data

Beznoska, Martin; Cludius, Johanna; Steiner, Viktor - 2012

We calculate the expected incidence of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS) using industry and household-level data. By combining data on direct CO2 emissions by production sector from the German Environmental Account with the German Input-Output Accounts, we calculate the CO2...

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Labor market effects of the German tax reform 2000

Haan, Peter (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2005

In the year 2000, the German government passed the most ambitious tax reform in postwar German history aiming at a significant tax relief for households. An important aim of this tax reform was to improve work incentives and, thereby, foster employment. Drawing on data of the German Socio...

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Enrolment into higher education and changes in repayment obligations of student aid : microeconometric evidence for Germany

Baumgartner, Hans J. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We evaluate the effect of the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) on enrolment rates into higher education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. Supported students had to repay the full loan until 1990....

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Distributional and fiscal effects of the German tax reform 2000 : a behavioral microsimulation analysis

Haan, Peter (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Household taxation, income splitting and labor supply incentives : a microsimulation study for Germany

Steiner, Viktor (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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