This paper uses administrative data to investigate how a change in pension wealth affects a mother’s employment decision after child birth. I exploit the extension of the child care pension benefit in 1992 as a natural experiment in a regression discontinuity design to estimate short- and...

Analysiert werden die vielfältigen Auswirkungen der Sozialversicherungsfreiheit der Entgeltumwandlung auf die verschiedenen Zweige der Sozialversicherungen und die Anpassungsprozesse, die sich aus den Mindereinnahmen in Folge des Entfallens von Beitragseinnahmen ergeben. Zudem werden die...

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 2005 (with a phase-in period between 2002-04), the German pension administration started to send out annual letters providing detailed and...

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...