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Pension reforms and couples' labour supply decisions
Moghadam, Hamed M.; Puhani, Patrick A.; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2023
To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since the early 1990s have gradually raised women's retirement...
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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2015
social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on … Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income floor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …-related Unemployment Insurance. Reflecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …
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The added worker effect differentiated by gender and partnership status : evidence from involuntary job loss
Triebe, Doreen - 2015
whether intra-household adaptation mechanisms differ by gender and by partnership status. The underlying method is a …
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Suddenly a stay-at-home dad? : short- and long-term consequences of fathers' job loss on time investment in the household
Hennecke, Juliane; Pape, Astrid - 2020
-employment. We also find significant changes for female partners as well as in the cumulative household time investments and the …
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Analyzing the labor market activity of immigrant families in Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - 2007
This paper analyzes whether immigrant families facing credit constraints adopt a family investment strategy wherein, upon arrival, an immigrant spouse invests in host country-specific human capital while the other partner works to finance the family's current consumption. Using data for West...
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Reforming family taxation in Germany : labor supply vs. insurance effects
Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - 2013
The present paper quantifies the economic consequences of eliminating the system of income splitting in Germany. We apply a dynamic simulation model with overlapping generations where single and married agents have to decide on labor supply and homework facing income and lifespan risk. The...
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Introducing family tax splitting in Germany : how would it affect the income distribution, work incentives and household welfare?
Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2007 - This version: 05/09/2007
on a behavioral micro-simulation model which integrates an empirical household labor supply model into a detailed tax …
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Empirical welfare analysis in random utility models of labour supply
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2010
measures. We retrieve individual and household specific preference heterogeneity, by estimating a structural discrete choice …
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Comparing labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US : new results
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2012
regions, consistent with complementarity in spouses' leisure in the US versus substitution in spouses' household production in … Europe. -- household labor supply ; elasticity ; taxation ; Europe ; US …
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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work : panel data evidence for Germany
Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015
This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data...
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