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Optimal Taxation : The Design of Child Related Cash- and In - Kind - Benefits

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2021

This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax - transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current German tax and transfer system for single women...

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Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model

Haan, Peter - 2009

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155158

Labor Market and Distributional Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age

Geyer, Johannes - 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...

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A Structural Approach to Estimating the Effect of Taxation on the Labor Market Dynamics of Older Workers

Haan, Peter - 2009

We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous accumulation of human capital and intertemporal non-separabilities in preferences. Additionally, the model accounts for the effect of the tax and transfer system on work...

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The Phantom of the Opera : Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Falck, Oliver - 2020

We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...

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Business Cycles and Start-Ups Across Industries : An Empirical Analysis of German Regions

Konon, Alexander - 2018

We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and...

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Mortality in Midlife for Subgroups in Germany

Haan, Peter - 2019

continued to decrease in several other high-income countries including Germany. However, average mortality rates can disguise … in Germany over the 1990 to 2015 period with a focus on deaths of despair. Our results show a very clear pattern: We find …

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Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael - 2015

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany …

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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed : Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany

Steiner, Viktor - 2006

effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …

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'Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labor Market

Bargain, Olivier - 2006

We assess the labor supply effects of two quot;making work payquot; reforms in Germany. We provide evidence in favor of …

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