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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341149
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489850
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340999
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Optimal unemployment insurance and welfare benefits in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings : conference paper
Prowse, Victoria; Haan, Peter - 2014 - Preliminary version
We specify and estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply, retirement and savings decisions of single-adult and couple households. Drawing on our model, we study the interplay between family labor supply and public insurance mechanisms. By including family labor supply, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491105
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Two steps forward : one step back? ; evaluating recent child care policies in Germany ; conference paper
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - This version: March 1st 2014, Preliminary and incomplete
In August 2013, two child care reforms have come into effect at the same time: First, a legal claim to formal child care has been introduced for all children aged one year or older. Second, a new benefit called Betreuungsgeld has been introduced that is granted to families who do not use public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486037
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Experimental evidence on the relationship between tax evasion opportunities and labor supply : conference paper
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Duncan, Denvil - 2013
Motivated by the observation that access to evasion opportunities is distributed heterogeneously across the labor market, this paper examines the extent to which labor supply elasticities with respect to tax rates depend on such evasion opportunities. We first discuss the channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337205
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Beyond Ramsey : gender-based taxation with non-cooperative couples ; conference paper
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2013
This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non-cooperative model of a couple's time … allocation between market work and providing a household public good. We find that the optimal structure of differential taxation … sharp contrast to previous models of gender-based taxation in which households select Pareto efficient allocations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340609
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Daddy months : conference paper
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014
improves efficiency. However, the same ruling harms cooperative couples and may also reduce welfare in an endogenous taxation …
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Heterogeneous household responses to energy price shocks
Peersman, Gert; Wauters, Joris - International Research Conference on Household … - 2022
We use survey evidence on reported spending in hypothetical energy price shock scenarios to study novel features of the price elasticity of energy demand and the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) after paying the energy bill. We document several nonlinearities depending on the sign and...
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Climate change and psychological adaptation : a behavioral environmental economics approach ; conference paper
Aronsson, Thomas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2014
Economic models of climate policy (or policies to combat other environmental problems) typically neglect psychological adaptation to changing life circumstances. People may adapt or become more sensitive, to different degrees, to a deteriorated environment. The present paper addresses these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481359