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Pollution exposure and infant health: Evidence from Germany
Coneus, Katja; Spieß, Christa Katharina - 2010
This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three … years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302999
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Do hours restrictions matter? A discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions
Wolf, Elke - 1998
The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is determined by the leisure of the two spouses and net household income. Furthermore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297602
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Alternative Approaches to Discrete Working Time Choice in an AGE Framework
Arntz, Melanie; Boeters, Stefan; Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2005
We compare two options of integrating discrete working time choice of heterogenous households into a general equilibrium model. The first, known from the literature, produces household heterogeneity through a working time preference parameter. We contrast this with a model that directly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297474
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Mandated sick pay: Coverage, utilization, and welfare effects
Maclean, Catherine; Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021
This paper evaluates how sick pay mandates operate at the job level in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698576
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Sick leave and medical leave in the United States: A categorization and recent trends
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2024
This article reviews the current debate about sick pay mandates and medical leave in the United States. The United States is one of three industrialized countries that do not guarantee access to paid sick leave for all employees. We first provide a categorization of the different paid leave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014515232
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ZEW-EviSTA: A microsimulation model of the German tax and transfer system
Buhlmann, Florian; Hebsaker, Michael; Kreuz, Tobias; … - 2022
This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating fiscal effects, labor market outcomes as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013284385
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Discrete Working Time Choice in an Applied General Equilibrium Model
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Feil, Michael; Boeters, Stefan - 2004
We present a model that integrates the discrete working time choice of heterogenous households into a general equilibrium setting where wages are determined by sectoral bargaining between firms and trade unions. The model is calibrated to German micro and macro data. We then use it to analyse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297346
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Welfare Analysis of Fiscal Reforms: Does the Representation of the Family Decision Process Matter? Evidence for Germany
Laisney, François; Beninger, Denis; Beblo, Miriam - 2003
compound procedure of estimation and calibration based on the 1998 wave of the German socioeconomic panel. We estimate a … estimation of collective models with taxation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297331
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The Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT) in Germany: Evidence from a Quasi Experiment
Spermann, Alexander; Strotmann, Harald - 2005
We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control … people in Germany by public case managers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297479
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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor: what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?
Wolf, Elke - 2000
Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297718