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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 …
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household labour supply and consumption behaviour. We simulate real world microdata by means of a collective approach, using a … estimation of collective models with taxation. …This paper compares predictions obtained for the analysis of tax reforms with collective and unitary models of …
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We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment Assistance with an income maintenance program and stronger means testing. We model the tax-benefit system and use the Socio-Economic Panel. We estimate a discrete labour supply...
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equilibrium model. The first, known from the literature, produces household heterogeneity through a working time preference … the grounds of both calibration consistency and adequate accomodation of within-household interaction, we argue that the …
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Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...
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In labour markets with collective wage bargaining higher progressivity of the labour income tax creates a trade-off. On … numerical general equilibrium model with imperfect competition on the goods market, collective wage bargaining and a labour … by the general tax level. -- labour taxation ; tax progressivity ; optimal taxation ; collective wage bargaining …
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Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the … ; tax progressivity ; optimal taxation ; collective wage bargaining ; unemployment ; microsimulation ; computable general … approximately 4600 individual households, and a macro (computable general equilibrium) module, which features collective wage …
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German Socio-Economic Panel and a discrete choice labour supply estimation. The model is used to analyse a reform that cuts …
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Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873325