Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Benefits in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

We specify and estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply, retirement and savings decisions of single-adult and couple households. Drawing on our model, we study the interplay between family labor supply and public insurance mechanisms. By including family labor supply, we recognize that the incentive effects and optimal design of publicinsurance programs may be impacted by a...

Estimating Female Labor Supply Using Quasi-experimental Variation

Fairness of the Pension System with Heterogenous Life Expectancy: Evidence from a Structural Life Cycle Model

The Design of Unemployment Transfers: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

Empirical Welfare Analysis with Preference Heterogeneity

Taxation of Married Couples in Germany and the UK: One-Earner Couples Make the Difference

The Design of Unemployment Transfers: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

In this paper we use a dynamic structural life-cycle model to analyze the employment, fiscal and welfare effects induced by unemployment insurance. The model features a detailed specification of the tax and transfer system, including unemployment insurance benefits which depend on an individual's employment and earnings history. The model also captures the endogenous accumulation of experience...

Labor Supply of Mothers with Young Children: Validating a Structural Model Using a Natural Experiment

Labor Supply of Mothers with Young Children: Validating a Structural Model Using a Natural Experiment

In this paper we estimate an intertemporal structural model of labor supply for mothers with young children. In order to validate the structural model, we make use of a recently introduced parental leave reform in Germany. We compare the behavioral predictions of the structural model under the reform (out-of-sample fit) to results based on an evaluation where we exploit the parental leave reform...

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

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 system which differs by employment state and number of children. To this end we simulate in detail the...

Longevity, Life-Cycle Employment and Fiscal Policy

The Design of Unemployment Transfers: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

Unemployment Insurance versus Minimum Income: Effects on Working Behavior over the Life-Cycle

Unemployment Insurance versus Minimum Income: Effects on Working Behavior over the Life-Cycle

Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Multi-Family Households in a Labour Supply Model: A Calibration Method with Application to Poland

Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Intertemporal Labor Supply and Involuntary Unemployment

Intertemporal Labor Supply Effects of Tax Reforms

Optimal Income Taxation and Lone Mothers: An Empirical Comparison for Britain and Germany