income taxation on the ratio between reservation and net market wages. Based on micro data for Germany (SOEP) we show that …This paper extends previous research about the determinants of reservation wages by analysing the effect of progressive … joint income taxation in Germany which discriminates by marital status, has a strong and highly significant impact on the …

search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical … their future outcomes are determined by external factors have lower reservation wages. -- Job search behavior ; search …

search productivity, it is also likely that individuals set higher reservation wages. We analyze these relations using a … novel data set of unemployed individuals in Germany containing extensive information on job search behavior and direct … relationship between the network size and reservation wages. -- Job search behavior ; unemployment ; social networks …

In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income … respondents to be controlled. The approach gives straightforward evidence: Obviously there is an optimal elasticity at which …

uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in line with the literature, to around zero. Accordingly, any policy …. -- Consumption-savings decision ; interest rate elasticity of savings ; income uncertainty …

are usually treated as a reduction in female wages, which is supposed to negatively affect a woman's propensity to … the effects of child care on mothers' employment in Germany should rather focus on the availabililty than on the …

Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …