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The Effect of Pension Wealth on Employment

Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2023

This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...

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Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income

Haan, Peter - 2018

lifetime earnings between individuals with different skill endowments and by providing individuals with insurance against … lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and -transfer system … offsets around half of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is due to differences in skill endowments. At the same time …

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment

Haan, Peter - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed : Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany

Steiner, Viktor - 2006

We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...

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Safety Net Still in Transition : Labour Market Incentive Effects of Extending Social Support in Poland

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2021

Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by now complete. However, the route Polish governments have so far taken concerning the system of support for low-income families still implies very different poverty alleviation schemes compared to those found in many...

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Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply

Decoster, André - 2010

The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models of labour supply. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the...

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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform

Haan, Peter - 2011

How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking...

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Bayesian Procedures as a Numerical Tool for the Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

Haan, Peter - 2012

Dynamic discrete choice models usually require a general specification of unobserved heterogeneity. In this paper, we apply Bayesian procedures as a numerical tool for the estimation of a female labor supply model based on a sample size which is typical for common household panels. We provide...

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Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model

Haan, Peter - 2009

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...

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'Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labor Market

Bargain, Olivier - 2006

individuals with low earnings. In assessing the policies we account for demand-side constraints by using a double-hurdle model. We …

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