Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Labor Supply of Mothers: The Role of Time Discounting

Employment Effects and the Pension System: Evidence from a Cohort Based Reform

In this paper we exploit a cohort specific pension reform to estimate the causal employment effect of changes in the financial incentives to retire. In particular we analyze the effect of the introduction of pension deductions for early retirement on female employment. For the empirical analysis we use high-quality administrative data from the German Federal Pension Insurance (VSKT) and find...

Labor Supply of Mothers: The Role of Time Discounting

Retirement Preparedness across Cohorts in Germany

Lifetime Income Inequality with Taxation and Public Benefits

Early Retirement Eligibility and Employment Behavior: Evidence from a Cohort Based Pension Reform

Labor Supply of Mothers: The Role of Time Discounting

Wind Electricity Subsidies = Windfall Gains for Land Owners? Evidence from a Feed-in Tariff in Germany

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

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...