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Labour supply of households facing a risk of job loss

Gelade, Wouter; Nautet, Maud; Piton, Céline - International Research Conference on Household … - 2022 - This version: October 17, 2022

The impact of a job loss on partner's labour supply - often called the added worker effect - is a well-studied phenomenon. However, people might already adjust their labour supply when their partner is at risk of losing his/her job. Using Labour Force Survey (LFS) microdata, we quantify this...

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Subsidizing health-conscious behavior now or later : conference paper

Danilowicz, Kamila; Schwager, Robert - 2013 - Preliminary draft

We examine subsidies for health care when consumers have present-biased preferences, which lead them to underestimate the effect of today s consumption on future health. We compare immediate subsidies paid for health-conscious consumption and future subsidies rewarding a good health outcome. We...

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Should I stay or should I go? : the role of actuarial reduction rates in individual retirement planning in Germany ; conference paper

Kluth, Sebastian - 2014

This paper provides a two-part empirical analysis on how actuarial reduction rates for early retirement affect current pension payments in Germany and to what extent the existence and the magnitude of these reduction rates influence people s retirement planning. First, by evaluating a large...

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The aggregate effects of the Hartz reforms in Germany : conference paper

Hertweck, Matthias Sebastian; Sigrist, Oliver - 2013

(1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the …

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Unemployment compensation and unemployment duration : evidence from the German Hartz IV reform ; conference paper

Kloß, Michael; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2013 - This version: August 23, 2013

In 2005, the unemployment compensation for long-term unemployed was reduced in Germany. We examine how this reform … affected the transition probability to employment. Additionally, we inspect how this effect varies over unemployment duration … raised the transition probability of short-term unemployed. The effect is even higher, the longer the unemployment duration …

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Do high-skilled immigrants find jobs faster than low-skilled immigrants? : conference paper

Hochfellner, Daniela; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2014 - Preliminary version: 27th February 2014

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...

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Effect of past coworkers on job search evidence from Austria : conference paper

Saygin, Perihan; Weber, Andrea; Weynandt, Michèle - 2013

exit hazard from unemployment, and to a 2.5 percent decrease in the drop out hazard. It is also associated with a 0.5 EUR …

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Validating structural labor supply models : conference paper

Löffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013 - Work in progress, This version: February 27, 2013

Although discrete hours choice models have become the workhorse in labor supply analyses. Yet, they are often criticized for being a black box due to their numerous underlying modeling assumptions, with respect to, e.g., the functional form, unobserved error components or several exogeneity...

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Empirical welfare analysis with preference heterogeneity : conference paper

Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2013

We apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of preference heterogeneity, derived from structural labour supply models. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of...

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Household bargaining and the design of couples' income taxation : conference paper

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie; Maldonado, Darío - 2014

The paper studies the design of couples income taxation when consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple are made in a cooperative way according to some bargaining scheme. Specifically, the couple maximizes a weighted sum of the spouses utilities. In the first part of the paper, the...

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