This cumulative dissertation consists of three contributions that empirically analyse economic risks at the level of the individual and the household from different perspectives. The first analysis "Future public pensions and changing employment patterns across cohorts" aims to quantify the effects of labour market changes and pension reforms across birth cohorts in East and West Germany. The pension ...
This thesis centers on the question who actually bears the loads and the benefits of a policy. While the statutory incidence of policy measures can easily be looked up in the commensurate laws the economic incidence maybe a different matter altogether. The thesis at hand sheds light on the incidence of three dimensions of tax and labor market policy; the effect of a minimum wage on the wage structure ...
