Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Labor Supply and the Pension System: Evidence from a Regression Kink Design

Inequality and Defined Benefit Pensions When Life Expectancy Is Heterogeneous

On the Incidence of Renewable Energy Subsidies into Land Prices: Evidence from Germany

Inequality and Defined Benefit Pensions When Life Expectancy Is Heterogeneous

In this paper, we analyze how life expectancy-driven redistribution of income through a defined pension benefit system impacts on inequality in annual consumption. Our analysis combines a methodology that quantifies life expectancy-driven redistribution through the pension system with a structural life-cycle model in which labor supply, retirement and consumption decisions respond to changes in...

On the Incidence of Renewable Energy Subsidies into Land Prices: Evidence from Germany

Inequality and Defined Benefit Pensions When Life Expectancy Is Heterogeneous

In this paper, we analyze how income taxes, transfer programs and the pension system affect inequality in lifetime income. Importantly, we consider pre-retirement and post-retirement income and thereby we extend the previous literature on lifetime inequality, which has only considered income received before retirement. We use a dynamic structural life-cycle model to derive trajectories of earnings...

On the Incidence of Renewable Energy Subsidies into Land Prices: Evidence from Germany

The disappearance of capital income from the income tax base in many countries poses a major challenge to the comparability of top income share series based on income tax statistics both over time and between countries. First, we extend the existing German series including capital gains to 2010. Second, we derive three homogeneous series by simulating legislative definitions of capital income...

Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Social Assistance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Distributional Effects of Transfer Programs in Germany before, during and after the Economic Crisis

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

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...