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Would you marry me? : The effects of marriage on German couples' allocation of time
El Lahga, AbdelRahmen (contributor);  … - 2007
cohabiting union. For the cohort 1964-1968, this applies to 81 percent. In the former Federal Republic of Germany, about 38 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003461270
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Welfare analysis of fiscal reforms : does the representation of the family decision process matter : evidence for Germany
Beninger, Denis; Laisney, François; Beblo, Miriam - 2003
household labour supply and consumption behaviour. We simulate real world microdata by means of a collective approach, using a … 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/10011448527
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Do hours restrictions matter? : a discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions
Wolf, Elke - 1998
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, heterogeneity of preferences and the German tax and benefit system are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442317
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Local governments in the wake of demographic change : efficiency and economies of scale in German municipalities
Geys, Benny (contributor); Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor) - 2007
German municipalities are expected to suffer from (often significant) population losses in the upcoming decades. We assess these local governments’ vulnerability to the fiscal consequences of this demographic decline through two means (using a sample of 1021 municipalities in the state of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003480058
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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany
Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - 2000
Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443897
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Short-run fertility effects of parental leave benefits : evidence from a structural model
Stichnoth, Holger - 2014
Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state … dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a … generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a short-term fertility effect of about 4%, which is consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416349
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Der Einfluss öffentlichen Eigentums auf die Preissetzung in deutschen Haushaltsstrommärkten
Nikogosian, Vigen; Veith, Tobias - 2010
In der aktuellen Debatte zur Rekommunalisierung von Stromanbietern wird häufig das Argument der sicheren Versorgung zu niedrigen Preisen von Vertretern öffentlicher Eigentümer angeführt. Während die sichere Belieferung mit Strom im Rahmen der Grundversorgung gesetzlich vorgeschrieben ist,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702243
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Price and income elasticities of residential energy demand in Germany
Schulte, Isabella; Heindl, Peter - 2016
(electricity and heating) in Germany. Using official expenditure data from 1993 to 2008, we estimate an expenditure elasticity for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503007
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Employment of mothers after childbirth : French-German comparison
Lauer, Charlotte; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2003
This paper compares the work attachment of French and German women after childbirth. Both fertility and employment of … mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448707