Publikationen des Projekts: Optimale Einkommenstransfer-Programme und Beschäftigung in einer alternden Gesellschaft - Großbritannien und Deutschland im Vergleich
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis of a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a structural household labour supply model. ...
Estimates of labour supply effects of recent UK reforms in the area of direct taxes and benefits show that policy can have significant influence on the level of employment. We confirm this in a simulation of in-work support system introduced into the German tax and benefit system. Our simulation results suggest that introducing in-work Tax Credits in Germany would increase employment of single individuals ...
London:
Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society,
2007,
46 S.
| Richard Blundell, Mike Brewer, James Browne, Peter Haan, Michal Myck, Viktor Steiner
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) an employment bonus in the form of subsidized social security contributions on low wages. The work-incentive, labor-supply, and welfare effects of these policy reforms are analyzed on the basis of a behavioral microsimulation model for Germany. We find that the simulated ...
In:
Finanzarchiv
64 (2008), 3, S. 380-402
| Peter Haan, Viktor Steiner
Estimates of the labour supply effects of recent UK reforms in the area of direct taxes and benefits show that policy can have significant influence on the level of employment. We confirm this in a simulation of an in-work support system introduced into the German tax and benefit system. Our simulation results suggest that introducing in-work tax credits in Germany would increase the employment of ...
In:
Fiscal Studies
28 (2007), 1, S. 43-72
| Peter Haan, Michal Myck