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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822612
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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - 2006
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274092
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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed - Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 64 (2008) 3, pp. 380-402
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) an employment bonus in the form of subsidized social security contributions on low wages. The work-incentive, labor-supply, and welfare effects of these policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764454
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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068857
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When Institutions Interact : How the Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policies
Gudgeon, Matthew; Guzman, Pablo; Schmieder, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … with retirement policies. Accounting for interactions across UI and retirement institutions also helps explain otherwise … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421233
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The Effect of Pension Wealth on Employment
Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2022
This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296580
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The Effect of Pension Wealth on Employment
Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2022
This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467773
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The effect of pension wealth on employment
Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2023
This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480512
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The effect of pension wealth on employment
Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2022
This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476768
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The effect of pension wealth on employment
Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2023
This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014370431