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Making work pay for the elderly unemployed : evaluating alternative policy reforms for Germany
Haan, Peter Albert Percy den (contributor);  … - 2006
effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003394855
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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model for monetary appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
- Germany. We find, for instance, that for West-workers hearing impediments are on average equivalent to an income reduction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435018
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Pension incentives and early retirement
Engels, Barbara; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter - 2016
In this paper we exploit a cohort-specific pension reform to estimate the causal labour market effects of changes in the financial incentives to retire. In particular, we analyze the effects of the introduction of cohort-specific deductions for early retirement on female retirement, employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558593
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Closing routes to retirement : how do people respond?
Geyer, Johannes; Welteke, Clara - 2017
and potential program substitution in a regression-discontinuity framework. Germany abolished an important early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630967
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Labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the retirement age
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Hammerschmid, Anna; … - 2018
We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 for women. We use a regression discontinuity design which exploits the immediate increase in the ERA between women born in 1951 and 1952. The analysis is based on the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865453
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Employment effects of welfare reforms : evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model
Haan, Peter (contributor); Prowse, Victoria (contributor);  … - 2008
place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726084
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Optimal income taxation of married couples : an empirical analysis of joint and individual taxation
Haan, Peter (contributor); Navarro, Dolores (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779678
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Happiness: revising set point theory and dynamic equilibrium theory to account for long term change
Headey, Bruce (contributor) - 2006
An adequate theory of happiness or subjective well-being (SWB) needs to link at least three sets of variables: stable … satisfaction. Using these data, the paper suggests a major revision to the set point or dynamic equilibrium theory of SWB in order … and Tellegen, 1996). Previously, theory focused on evidence that individuals have their own equilibrium level or set point …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003346302
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Der Einfluss von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und sozialen Ressourcen auf die Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer
Uhlendorff, Arne - 2003
social resources on the individual length of unemployment in Germany are analysed with data from the German Socio … to new additional findings. In West-Germany mobile persons and actors with internal control find a job more easily while … in East-Germany social capital has a positive influence on the probability of reemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438269
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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the evaluation of labor market policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014
unemployment in Germany, as well as several usually unobserved characteristics like personality traits, attitudes, expectations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010400598