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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets : what are the driving forces?
Boeters, Stefan - 2009
the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other hand, the individual labour supply decision is … progressivity is below the actual level. A decomposition approach shows that the optimal level is increased by high unemployment and … ; unemployment …
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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets : simulation results for Germany
Boeters, Stefan - 2010
, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity … ; tax progressivity ; optimal taxation ; collective wage bargaining ; unemployment ; microsimulation ; computable general …
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Reforming social welfare in Germany : an applied general equilibrium analysis
Boeters, Stefan; Gürtzgen, Nicole; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2003
reform on wages and unemployment. The simulation results show that general equilibrium wage reactions tend to mitigate labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448867
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Specific measures for older employees and late career employment
Boockmann, Bernhard; Fries, Jan; Goebel, Christian - 2012
We analyse the effects of specific measures for older employees (SMOE) on employment duration of workers aged 40 and above. Using longitudinal employer-employee data for German establishments, we account for worker and establishment heterogeneity and correct for stock-sampling. We find a...
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Do savings increase in response to salient information about retirement and expected pensions?
Dolls, Mathias; Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2016
How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual letters providing detailed and comprehensible information about the pension system...
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The ZEW combined microsimulation-CGE model : innovative tool for applied policy analysis
Clauss, Markus; Schubert, Stefanie - 2009
This contribution describes the linkage of microsimulation models and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models using two already established models called “STSM” and “PACE-L” used by the Centre for European Economic Research. This state of the art research method for applied policy...
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Female labor force participation and the big five
Wichert, Laura; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which...
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Asymmetries and interdependencies in time use between Italian parents
Mancini, Anna Laura; Pasqua, Silvia - 2011
In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise their future behaviour and cognitive development have greatly affected patterns of time allocation among both working and non-working parents in all developed countries. We compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008902036
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An unconditional basic income in the family context : labor supply and distributional effects
Horstschräer, Julia; Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2010
In this paper we estimate the effects of an unconditional basic income on labor supply and income distribution with a special focus on the incentives to work in the family context. An unconditional basic income guarantees every citizen a minimum income without any means-testing. We simulate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702213
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Asymmetric labor-supply responses to wage-rate changes : evidence from a field experiment
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Duncan, Denvil; Löffler, Max - 2016
The standard labor-supply literature typically assumes that the labor supply response to wage increases is the same as that for equivalent wage decreases. However, evidence from the behavioral-economics literature suggests that people are loss averse and thus perceive losses differently than...
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