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How the distribution of after-tax income changed over the 1990s business cycle : a comparison of the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Oshio, Takashi; Rovba, Ludmila - 2007
Germany and Japan. …-tax (disposable) income moved to the right in the United States and Great Britain while inequality declined. In contrast, Germany and … Japan experienced less growth, a rise in inequality and a decline in the middle mass of their distributions that spread …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630079
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One last puff? : public smoking bans and smoking behavior
Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2010
, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in …-in-differences estimates show thatthe introduction of smoke-free legislation in Germany did not change average smoking behavior within the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824844
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Are recessions good for educational attainment?
Ochsen, Carsten - 2010
children. Using data for Germany, we find that an economic downturn, coupled with increased unemployment, affects children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825074
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Estimating incentive and welfare effects of non-stationary unemployment benefits
Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2010
The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits displays a time-varying exit rate. Building on Semi-Markov processes, we translate these exit rates into an expression for the aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826254
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Distributional consequences of labor demand adjustments to a downturn : a model-based approach with application to Germany 2008-09
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2010
Germany. We take as a starting point a very detailed administrative matched employer-employee dataset to estimate labor demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826267
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Worker reallocation across occupations in Western Germany
Isaoglu, Aysen - 2010
This paper analyzes the determinants of annual worker reallocation across disaggregated occupations in western Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826392
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Wirkungen eines Betreuungsgeldes bei bedarfsgerechtem Ausbau frühkindlicher Kindertagesbetreuung : eine Mikrosimulationsstudie
Beninger, Denis; Bonin, Holger; Horstschräer, Julia; … - 2010
Der Beitrag evaluiert die Wirkungen eines Betreuungsgeldes bei gleichzeitigem Ausbau der öffentlich geförderten Tagesbetreuung für Kinder im Alter von 13 bis 36 Monaten. Wir schätzen mit SOEP-Daten und unter Berücksichtigung partiell beobachtbarer Rationierungen im Betreuungsbereich ein...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826412
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The introduction of a short-term earnings-related parental leave benefit system and differential employment effects
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010
German family policy underwent a reform in 2007, when the new instrument of "Elterngeld" replaced the previous "Erziehungsgeld". The transfer programs differ in various dimensions. We study the effects on the labor supply of young mothers, by comparing behavior before and after the reform. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826419
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Assessing the effectiveness of health care cost containment measures
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011
were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral hazard and public health expenditures in the market for convalescent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826715
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Time-varying individual risk attitudes over the Great Recession : a comparison of Germany and Ukraine
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2015
We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376904