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Keeping up with the Joneses : income comparisons and labour supply ; conference paper
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - Preliminary version August 07, 2013
We investigate whether working time is related to the intensity of income comparisons and relative income. Our simple theoretical model demonstrates that the effects of relative income concerns depend on whether an individual can choose contractual working hours and/or overtime. In the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337852
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The German part-time wage gap : bad news for men ; conference paper
Wolf, Elke - 2013
Despite the increasing occurrence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are rarely studied. I … unobserved individual characteristics yields a wage cut of about 10 percent in West and East Germany. Furthermore, the type of … that the part-time wage gap shrinks, the empirical evidence reveals that wage differentials in West-Germany increased over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338945
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Is the equal sharing of market work and family duties hampered by financial means or constraints? : evidence from a structural labor supply model with involuntary unemployment and...
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - Preliminary version: February 19, 2014
young children in Germany fall apart. Potential explanations include financial incentives favoring the single-earner model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484402
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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
supply model for married women estimated on microdata from the Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) in Germany. We construct welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341149
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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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Daddy months : conference paper
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014
We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to having a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483880
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The labour supply of women in STEM : conference paper
Schlenker, Eva - 2013 - Preliminary version
The purpose of this paper is to assess the determinants of female labour supply in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Using data from the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), the author finds that women in STEM work more hours, but have a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338952
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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 by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340609