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  • Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science

    Building the Minimum Wage: The Distributional Impact of Germany's First Sectoral Minimum Wage on Wages and Hours across Different Wage Bargaining Regimes

    The first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the construction industry. In the setting of a natural experiment, blue-collar workers in neighboring 4-digit industries and white-collar workers are used as control groups for differences-in-differences-in-differences estimation based on linked employer-employee data. Estimation results reveal a sizable ...

    In: Empirical Economics 46 (2014), 4, 1429-1446 | Pia Rattenhuber
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    Personality Characteristics and the Decisions to Become and Stay Self-Employed

    Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect entry, but different ones, such as agreeableness or different parameter values of risk tolerance, affect ...

    In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014), 4, S. 787-814 | Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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    Welfare Effects of a Shift of Joint to Individual Taxation in the German Personal Income Tax

    We empirically derive the welfare effects of a shift from joint to individual taxation of married households in Germany. For the welfare evaluation we estimate the preference heterogeneity and use normative welfare concepts proposed by Fleurbaey (2006) to address the difficulties of comparison between and aggregation of heterogeneous agents. Our results suggest that the normative choice of the welfare ...

    In: Finanzarchiv 70 (2014), 4, S. 599-624 | André Decoster, Peter Haan
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    Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform

    How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this question, we use micro data to estimate a structural life-cycle model of individuals' employment, retirement and consumption decisions. We calculate that, in the case of Germany, an increase of 3.76 years in the pension age thresholds or a cut of 26.8% in the per-year value ...

    In: Journal of Econometrics 178 (2014), 3, S. 582-601 | Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
  • Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science

    Future Public Pensions and Changing Employment Patterns across Birth Cohorts

    We analyse the impacts of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a microsimulation model and a rich data set that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced microdata from the German pension insurance. We account for cohort effects in ...

    In: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance 13 (2014), 2, S. 172-209 | Johannes Geyer, Viktor Steiner
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    Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Introduction of a "Fresh Start" Policy

    A personal bankruptcy law that allows for a "fresh start" not only reduces the individual risk involved in entrepreneurship, but may also lead to higher interest rates charged by creditors. Both effects are less relevant for wealthy potential entrepreneurs. This paper illustrates these effects in a model and tests the hypotheses derived by exploiting the introduction of a "fresh start" policy in Germany ...

    In: American Law and Economics Review 16 (2014), 1, S. 269-312 | Frank M. Fossen
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    A Wealth Tax on the Rich to Bring down Public Debt? Revenue and Distributional Effects of a Capital Levy in Germany

    The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crisis is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the political agenda in Germany. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and estimate the net wealth distribution ...

    In: Fiscal Studies 35 (2014), 1, S. 67-89 | Stefan Bach, Martin Beznoska, Viktor Steiner
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    Outside Earnings, Absence, and Activity: Evidence from German Parliamentarians

    We examine moonlighting by politicians in Germany. In July 2007, the German Supreme Court adjudicated that members of parliament (MPs) have to publish details of their outside earnings. Using panel data models, we investigate how outside earnings are correlated with absence and parliamentary activity. The results do not indicate that outside earnings are correlated with absence rates and speeches; ...

    In: European Journal of Political Economy 36 (2014), S. 147-157 | Felix Arnold, Björn Kauder, Niklas Potrafke
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    The Perfect Finance Minister: Whom to Appoint as Finance Minister to Balance the Budget

    The role and influence of the finance minister within the cabinet are discussed with increasing prominence in the theoretical literature on the political economy of budget deficits. It is generally assumed that the spending ministers can enhance their reputation purely with new or more extensive expenditure programs, whereas it is the sole interest of the finance minister to balance the budget. Using ...

    In: European Journal of Political Economy 34 (2014), S. 390-408 | Beate R. Jochimsen, Sebastian Thomasius
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    Poverty and Transitions in Health in Later Life

    Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from 12 countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four- to five-year period. We find that poverty defined with respect to relative income has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of poor material conditions, such as ...

    In: Social Science & Medicine 116 (2014), S. 202-210 | Maja Adena, Michal Myck
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