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  • Refereed essays Web of Science

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

    Models of cooperative and noncooperative behaviour opened the household "black box" and allowed for individual treatment of partners in couples. However, labour supply literature has so far largely ignored a broader issue - the distinction of single versus multi-family ("complex") households. We propose a method to account for multi-family household structure by borrowing from recent applications of ...

    In: Applied Economics 44 (2012), 22, S. 2907-2919 | Peter Haan, Michal Myck
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    Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model

    We develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between these two outcomes. To identify the effect of financial incentives on employment and fertility we exploit variation in the tax and transfer system, which differs by employment state and number of children. Specifically, we simulate in detail the effects of the tax and transfer ...

    In: Labour Economics 18 (2011), 4, S. 498-512 | Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich
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    A Structural Approach to Estimating the Effect of Taxation on the Labour Market Dynamics of Older Workers

    We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous accumulation of human capital and intertemporal non-separabilities in preferences. In addition, the model accounts for the effects of income tax, social security contributions and the transfer system on work incentives. The structural parameter estimates are used to evaluate the employment ...

    In: The Econometrics Journal 13 (2010), 3, S. S99-S125 | Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
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    Optimal Taxation: The Design of Child-Related Cash- and In-Kind-Benefits

    In this paper, we empirically derive the welfare function that guarantees that the current German tax and transfer system for single women is optimal. In particular, we compare the welfare function conditional on the presence and age of children and assess how recent reforms of in-kind childcare transfers affect the welfare function. Our analysis is based on a discrete model of optimal taxation. We ...

    In: German Economic Review 11 (2010), 3, S. 278-301 | Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich
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    A Multi-state Model of State Dependence in Labor Supply: Intertemporal Labor Supply Effects of a Shift from Joint to Individual Taxation

    In this paper I develop an intertemporal discrete choice model of female labor supply to analyze the effects of true state dependence and its effect on labor supply behavior over time. The estimation results show that state dependence is significantly positive at the extensive margin and lower but in general still significant at the intensive margin. I apply this model to study the short and long run ...

    In: Labour Economics 17 (2010), 2, S. 323-335 | Peter Haan
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    "Making Work Pay" in a Rationed Labour Market

    This paper empirically analyzes the labor supply effects of two "making work pay" reforms in Germany. We provide evidence in favor of policies that distinguish between low effort and low productivity by targeting individuals with low wages rather than those with low earnings. We discuss our results more generally and with comparisons to the family-based tax credits in force in the US and the UK. For ...

    In: Journal of Population Economics 23 (2010), 1, S. 323-351 | Olivier Bargain, Marco Caliendo, Peter Haan, Kristian Orsini
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    Optimal Income Taxation of Lone Mothers: An Empirical Comparison for Britain and Germany

    Optimal tax rules are used to evaluate the optimality of taxation for lone mothers in Germany and Britain. The theoretical model is combined with elasticities derived from the structural estimation of lone mothers' labour supply. For both countries we do not find that in-work credits with marginal tax rates are optimal. However we show that when the government has a low taste for redistribution, out-of-work ...

    In: The Economic Journal 119 (2009), 535, S. 101-121 | Richard Blundell, Mike Brewer, Peter Haan, Andrew Shephard
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    The Impact of Income Taxation on the Ratio between Reservation and Market Wages and the Incentives for Labour Supply

    This article extends previous research about the determinants of reservation wages by analysing the effect of progressive income taxation on the ratio between reservation and net market wages. Based on micro data for Germany Socio-Economic-Panel (SOEP) we show that joint income taxation in Germany which discriminates by marital status, has a strong and highly significant impact on the reservation/market ...

    In: Applied Economics Letters 16 (2009), 9, S. 877-883 | Marco Caliendo, Ludovica Gambaro, Peter Haan
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    Dynamics of Health and Labor Market Risks

    While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labor market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labor market instability is not well understood. Using 12 years of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we study the nature of the relationship between ...

    In: Journal of Health Economics 28 (2009), 6, S. 1116-1125 | Peter Haan, Michal Myck
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    Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany

    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
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