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Refereed essays Web of Science
Across the world, tax exemptions for jobs with low earnings intend to incite non-participating workers to rejoin the labor market. However, such tax exemptions may also have negative equilibrium effects. The German minijob tax exemption offers a convenient case to identify equilibrium effects as it applies to some but not to other low-wage jobs. We build and estimate a structural job search model with ...
In:
Labour Economics
69 (2021), 101976, 15 S.
| Luke Haywood, Michael Neumann
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Workers in demanding jobs may be particularly negatively affected by an increasing statutory retirement age. We exploit a pension reform that raised the early retirement age of women from 60 to 63 years in Germany. Based on a large administrative social security data set we exploit the quasi-natural experiment using a regression-discontinuity approach. We find the same relative employment...
18.11.2020| Johannes Geyer
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This study examines the relationship between air quality alerts and school absenteeism in New York City. Examining the effects of the alerts in school attendance is relevant because it helps us understand parents' avoidance behavior in situations of exacerbated exposure to air contaminants. Causality arises by exploiting the deterministic nature of the alerts with regression discontinuity...
22.10.2020| Luis Sarmiento
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
We combine unique data that include all practitioner health diagnoses based on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) collected from all publicly insured individuals in Germany with a sizable cohort specific pension reform to study the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. For the analysis, we use a cohort specific regression discontinuity design. The...
16.06.2020| Mara Barschkett
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Research Project
The Green Guarantee Pension is designed to ensure that people who have worked the majority of their lives, brought up children, looked after other people or have acquired other rights under the statutory pension insurance (Gesetzliche Rentenversicherung) receive a pension in old age that is above the means-tested basic pension. The Guarantee Pension increases pension entitlements within the...
Completed Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
We conduct a stated preference experiment to analyze the effects of pension incentives, increasing retirement age, and provision of a partial retirement scheme on individuals’ preferences to work parttime and full-time beyond the early and legal retirement ages. We conduct the experiment in Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, and the United States for an international comparative analysis.
Current Project| Public Economics
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Externe Monographien
This paper presents a life-cycle model with human capital investment during working life through training and provides a novel empirical test of human capital theory. We exploit a sizable pension reform across adjacent cohorts in a regression discontinuity setting and find that an increase in working life increases training. We discuss and test further predictions regarding the relation between initial ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2020,
40 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 12891)
| Niklas Gohl, Peter Haan, Elisabeth Kurz, Felix Weinhardt
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper analyzes the impact of women's retirement on their informal care provision. Using SOEP data, we address fundamental endogeneity problems by exploiting variation in the German pension system in two complementary ways. We find a significant effect of retirement on informal care provision, when using early retirement age thresholds as instruments. Heterogeneity analyses confirm the underlying ...
In:
Journal of Health Economics
73 (2020), 102350
| Björn Fischer, Kai-Uwe Müller
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence on cohort trends of the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and life expectancy at age 65 and show that the longevity gap is increasing across cohorts. For ...
In:
The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
17 (2020), 100199, 24 S.
| Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Holger Lüthen
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 for women born after 1951. We use a regression discontinuity design which exploits the strong increase in the ERA between women born in 1951 and 1952. The analysis is based on the German microcensus which includes about 370,000 households per year. We focus on heterogeneous labor market ...
In:
Labour Economics
65 (2020), 101817, 21 S.
| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid, Michael Peters