This paper quantifies the life-cycle incidence of key family policy measures in Germany. The analysis is based on a … novel dynamic microsimulation model that combines simulated family life-cycles for a base population from the 2009 wave of … Germany benefit considerably from family- and marriage-related transfers, yet also reveal substantial variation behind the …

dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a …

number of key family policy measures based on data for Germany. Parental leave benefits, child benefits and subsidized …

number of key family policy measures based on data for Germany. Parental leave benefits, child benefits and subsidized …

dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a …

GSOEP data. In a microsimulation the present tax-benefit system with child benefit/allowance is replaced by a tax scheme …

between labour market segments in a combined, consistent microsimulation-AGE model with a flexible representation of …

between labour market segments in a combined, consistent microsimulation-AGE model with a flexible representation of …

numerical model for Germany. The model combines a microsimulation module, which captures the labour-supply decisions of …

This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past … based on a structural model of household labor supply. For West Germany, a positive effect of marital sorting on inequality … participation. In East Germany, the impact of marital sorting on inequality is highly disequalizing irrespective of adjusting for …