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Marital Risk, Family Insurance, and Public Policy

The present paper aims to quantify the growth and welfare consequences of changing family structures in western societies. For this reason we develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with both genders which takes into account changes of the marital status as a stochastic process. Individuals respond to these shocks by adjusting savings and labor supply. Our quantitative results indicate that the ...

Should pensions be progressive? Yes, at least in Germany!

The present paper quantitatively characterizes the consequences of rising pension progressivity in an overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic income, disability and longevity risk as well as endogenous labor supply at the intensive and extensive margin. Focusing on the German pension system which is purely earnings related, we increase the degree of progressivity and compute the optimal mix ...

Reforming Family Taxation in Germany - Labor Supply vs. Insurance Effects

The present paper quantifies the economic consequences of eliminating the system of income splitting in Germany. We apply a dynamic simulation model with overlapping generations where single and married agents have to decide on labor supply and homework facing income and lifespan risk. The numerical exercise computes the resulting welfare changes across households and isolates aggregate efficiency ...

Household Formation, Female Labor Supply, and Savings

In this paper, we aim to quantify the impact of changing family structures on labor supply and savings in Western societies. Our dynamic general equilibrium model features both genders, and it takes into account changes in marital status as a stochastic process. The numerical results indicate that changes in household formation can partly explain the reallocation of male and female labor supply observed ...

Families and social security

The present paper quantifies the importance of family insurance for the analysis of social security. We therefore augment the standard overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic labor productivity and longevity risk in that we account for gender and marital status. We simulate the abolition of pay-as-you-go pension payments, calculate the resulting intergenerational welfare changes and isolate ...

Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Family Policy

The present paper develops an overlapping generations general equilibrium model for Germany in order to study the impact of public policy on household labor supply and fertility decisions. Starting from a benchmark equilibrium which reflects the current German family policy regime we introduce various reforms of the tax and child benefit system and quantify the consequences for birth rates and female ...

Starker Motor

Wer zufrieden ist, könnte sich eigentlich bequem zurücklehnen. Warum das nicht geschieht und glückliche Menschen sogar die Wirtschaft ankurbeln, analysiert eine neue Studie.

Was Zuzahlungen im Gesundheitswesen bewirken

Dynamik von Armut und Erwerbslosigkeit im Kontext von Familie

Familien haben im Zuge sozialen Wandels Probleme bei der Herstellung ökonomischer Wohlfahrt. In Konfrontation mit dem Phänomen einer Infantilisierung von Armut setzt die Familienpolitik auf Strategien der De-Familialisierung und Re-Kommodifizierung. Im Rekurs auf das Armutsfallentheorem wird der im Zuge der Hartz-Reformen umgesetzten Aktivierungsstrategie gefolgt, Familienernährende nicht durch eine ...

Die Arbeitslosigkeitsfalle vor und nach der Hartz-IV-Reform

Ziel der Hartz-Reformen war es, am Übergang zwischen dem System sozialer Sicherung und dem Arbeitsmarkt Grundsätzliches zu ändern: Durch forcierte Aktivierung der Transferbezieher sollten die Integration erwerbsfähiger Grundsicherungsbezieher in den Arbeitsmarkt beschleunigt und staatliche Sozialtransferausgaben begrenzt werden. Die Reformen rekurrierten auf das Armutsfallentheorem der Wirtschaftswissenschaften: ...