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The long-term labor market effects of parental unemployment

Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020

I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … results emphasize the intergenerational and longlasting consequences of parental unemployment. …

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Discrete heterogeneity in the impact of health shocks on labour market outcomes

Schurer, Stefanie (contributor) - 2008

Empirical evidence from the psychology literature suggests that reactions towards health shocks depend strongly on the personality trait of locus of control, which is usually unobservable to the analyst. In this paper, the role of this discrete heterogeneity in shaping the effects of health...

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Financing social security by taxing capital income : a bad idea?

Kunze, Lars; Schuppert, Christiane - 2009

cut wage-related social security contributions to reduce unemployment. The analysis is carried out in an overlapping … generations model with endogenous growth, unemployment and a social security system comprising pensions and unemployment benefits …

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Care choices in Europe : to each according to his needs?

Heger, Dörte; Korfhage, Thorben - 2016

Growing long-term care (LTC) needs represent a major challenge for our ageing societies. Understanding how utilization patterns of different types of care are influenced by LTC policies or changes in the population composition such as age patterns or health can provide helpful insight on how to...

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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness

Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2018

A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We extend the...

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Optimal taxation when the tax burden matters

Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022

Survey evidence shows that the magnitude of the tax liability plays a role in value judgements about which groups deserve tax breaks. We demonstrate that the German tax-transfer system conflicts with a welfarist inequality averse social planner. It is consistent with a planner who is averse to...

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Offshoring and non-monotonic employment effects across industries in general equilibrium

Baumgarten, Daniel; Irlacher, Michael; Koch, Michael - 2018

In diesem Papier adressieren wir die Diskrepanz zwischen bestehenden theoretischen Modellen und der gängigen empirischen Praxis bei der Analyse der Arbeitsmarktwirkungen von Offshoring. Während sich die Theorie auf Ein- oder Zwei-Sektor-Modelle konzentriert, nutzen empirische Studien zur...

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International outsourcing, the nature of tasks, and occupational stability : empirical evidence for Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2009

Using a large administrative data set of individual employment histories in Germany, this paper studies how international outsourcing affects the individual risk of leaving the occupation. Moreover, a rich data set on tasks performed in occupations is used to better characterize the sources of...

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Fiscal effects of minimum wages : an analysis for Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; … - 2008

result in a significant fiscal burden, due to increased expenditures for unemployment benefits and decreased revenues from …

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Lost in transition? : minimum wage effects on German construction workers

Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012

Using a linked employer-employee data set on the German construction industry, we analyse the effects of the introduction of minimum wages in this sector on labour market dynamics. In doing so, we focus on accessions and separations, as well as the underlying labour market flows, at the...

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