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What mean impacts miss : distributional effects of welfare reform experiments
Bitler, Marianne (contributor);  … - 2005
, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using … impacts. We conclude that welfare reform's effects are likely both more varied and more extensive than has been recognized …. -- treatment effect heterogeneity ; welfare reform ; distributional effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003085742
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What Mean Impacts Miss : Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments
Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary … - 2021
, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using … impacts. We conclude that welfare reform's effects are likely both more varied and more extensive than has been recognized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318314
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Mindestlöhne, Lohnsubventionen und Einkommenssicherung im Wohlfahrtsstaat : Verteilungswirkungen von Reformalternativen für Deutschland
Steiner, Viktor - 2010
Deutschland zielen zum einen auf die weiterführende Reform des Niedriglohnsektors, zum anderen auf dessen Rückführung durch die … Deutschland schon seit längerem und wurden im Zuge der jüngsten Arbeitsmarktreformen ausgeweitet. Aktuelle Reformvorschläge für …
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Labour Market Responses of Survival Pensioners : Estimating a Labour Supply Model and Predicting the Effect of the Reform
Decoster, André - 2009
protection' and the microsimulation model MIMOSIS to assess the labour supply effects of a reform of the rules for cumulating … choice labour supply model for several sub groups. Subsequently we model the proposed reform in the tax and benefit rules and … we predict the change in desired labour supply of the targeted group. The reform has a significant positive effect on the …
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Gender bias in tax systems based on household income
Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441692
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Household Labor Supply Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies in Germany
Bonin, Holger; Kempe, Wolfram; Schneider, Hilmar - 2021
This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On the basis of the estimated labor supply...
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Household labor supply effects of low-wage subsidies in Germany
Bonin, Holger; Kempe, Wolfram; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002
This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On the basis of the estimated labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415060
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Child benefit reform and labor market participation
Tamm, Marcus - 2009
This paper examines the impact of a change in the German child benefit system in 1996, which led to a large increase in lump sum transfers to families with children. We analyze the impact on the labor force participation of family members. Comparing behavioral changes of adults with children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824840
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Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and the CARES Act on earnings and inequality
Cortes, Guido Matias; Forsythe, Eliza - 2020
Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we show that the Covid-19 pandemic led to a loss of aggregate real labor earnings of more than $250 billion between March and July 2020. By exploiting the panel structure of the CPS, we show that the decline in aggregate earnings was entirely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287376
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Labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the retirement age
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Hammerschmid, Anna; … - 2018
We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 for women. We use a regression discontinuity design which exploits the immediate increase in the ERA between women born in 1951 and 1952. The analysis is based on the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902730