based on a structural model of household labor supply. For West Germany, a positive effect of marital sorting on inequality …

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 …

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 …

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. …

In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the …) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by implied efficiency effects. We use data from the manufacturing industry … that the impact of import penetration is not biased by efficiency effects. …

We study how trade liberalization affects formal employment across gender. We propose a theoretical mechanism to …