We take issue with the argument expounded, among others, by Layard (2006, Economic Journal) that status-seeking preferences justify heavier taxation of income because this serves to internalise the negative externality that the pursuit of status imposes on others. In a model where status depends...

Gegenstand der Studie sind die Auswirkungen einer Einführung des von der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion vorgeschlagenen "Familiengeldes" auf öffentliche Finanzen, Arbeitsmarkt und die wirtschaftliche Situation von Familien mit Kindern im Vorschulalter, die als Adressaten des Familiengeldes...

We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects. The sources of risk are shocks to productivity, job destruction, the process...