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The impact of short- and long-term participation tax rates on labor supply

Bartels, Charlotte; Pestel, Nico - 2015

up work. Using German microdata over the period 1993 - 2010 we find that recent reforms in Germany increased work …

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Bartels, Charlotte - 2013

Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to reduce work incentives for the lowskilled and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual income concepts. This paper analyzes work incentives...

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Benefit-entitlement effects and the duration of unemployment : an ex-ante evaluation of recent labour market reforms in Germany

Schmitz, Hendrik; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre …

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Estimating incentive and welfare effects of non-stationary unemployment benefits

Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2010

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits displays a time-varying exit rate. Building on Semi-Markov processes, we translate these exit rates into an expression for the aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation...

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Armut in Deutschland : Bevölkerungsgruppen unterhalb der Alg II-Grenze

Becker, Irene - 2007

Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist die Ermittlung von Größe und Struktur der Bevölkerung in Deutschland mit Einkommen …

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Parental unemployment and the transition into tertiary education : can institutions moderate the adverse effects?

Lindemann, Kristina; Gangl, Markus - 2018

This paper examines how parental unemployment affects the transition to postsecondary education in different institutional contexts. Drawing on theoretical perspectives in intergenerational mobility research and sociology of higher education, we estimate the extent to which these...

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Does subsidizing investments in energy efficiency reduce energy consumption? : evidence from Germany

Dieckhöner, Caroline - 2012

consumption is analyzed using a differences-in-differences-in-differences approach for modernizations made in given subsidy … landlords does not increase with higher subsidies. However, the renovations made during the subsidy periods decrease the heating … modernizations only slightly with increasing subsides. However, these modernizations during subsidy periods do not further decrease …

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The long-run effects of sports club vouchers for primary school children

Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021

Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...

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Vom Kinderzuschlag zum Kindergeldzuschlag : ein Reformvorschlag zur Bekämpfung von Kinderarmut

Becker, Irene; Hauser, Richard - 2008

Mit dem im Zuge der Hartz IV-Reform 2005 eingeführten Kinderzuschlag sollte vermieden werden, dass Familien von ALG II und Sozialgeld abhängig werden, deren Einkommen zwar zur Deckung des elterlichen minimalen Lebensstandards, nicht aber für das Existenzminimum des Kindes bzw. der Kinder...

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Implementation of funding for the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) : a personal recollection

Schäfers, Bernhard - 2009

The SOEP success story was not conceivable at its inception. SOEP's institutionalization is therefore a lesson demonstrating that it is not always possible to say - as is so often required of research proposals today - how a project will develop before it has even begun, and what significance it...

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