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effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …
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Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age in employment. An important at-risk group comprises employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be particularly negatively affected by the abolition of...
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- Germany. We find, for instance, that for West-workers hearing impediments are on average equivalent to an income reduction of …
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place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …
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We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
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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...
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society matters. Second, the probability to remit is not dominated by income. Third, foreigners living in Germany are not a …
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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 …
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enterprises from the chemical industry in Germany. …
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