Topic Inequality

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  • Diskussionspapiere 1767 / 2018

    100 Jahre deutsches Steuersystem: Revolution und Evolution

    Die „Erzbergerschen Steuer- und Finanzreformen“ 1919/20 haben das deutsche Steuer- und Finanzsystem nahezu vollständig umgestaltet, modernisiert und stark ausgebaut. Wesentliche Elemente dieser Reformen haben bis heute Bestand– die Grundstrukturen des Steuersystems und der Steuerrechtsordnung sowie der zentralistische kooperative Finanzföderalismus. Das NS-Regime konsolidierte die Reformen und erhöhte ...

    2018| Stefan Bach
  • Externe Monographien

    Labor Market and Distributional Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age

    We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 for women. We use a regression discontinuity design which exploits the immediate increase in the ERA between women born in 1951 and 1952. The analysis is based on the German micro census which includes about 370,000 households per year. We focus on heterogeneous labor market effects ...

    Bonn: IZA, 2018, 31 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 11618)
    | Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid, Michael Peters
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    The Effect of Pension Reforms on Old-Age Income Inequality

    Many OECD countries are raising the normal retirement age (NRA), thereby, making early retirement more costly. Whereas such reforms incentivize individuals to work longer, labor market frictions might partly undermine intended behavioral responses. Employing administrative data of West German men, I estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of work, unemployment and retirement allowing for labor market ...

    In: Labour Economics 53 (2018), S. 146-161 | Stefan Etgeton
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    The Family Working-Time Model: Towards More Gender Equality in Work and Care

    Since the millennium, the labour market participation of women and mothers is increasing across European countries. Several work/care policy measures underlie this evolution. At the same time, the labour market behaviour of fathers, as well as their involvement in care work, is relatively unchanging, meaning that employed mothers are facing an increased burden with respect to gainful employment and ...

    In: Journal of European Social Policy 28 (2018), 5, S. 471-486 | Kai-Uwe Müller, Michael Neumann, Katharina Wrohlich
  • Diskussionspapiere 1752 / 2018

    Social Image Concerns and Welfare Take-Up

    Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that social image concerns causally reduce the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design manipulates the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on ability or luck, and how the transfer is financed. We find that subjects avoid the inference both of being low-skilled (ability stigma) ...

    2018| Jana Friedrichsen, Tobias König, Renke Schmacker
  • Diskussionspapiere 1747 / 2018

    Does Subsidized Care for Toddlers Increase Maternal Labor Supply? Evidence from a Large-Scale Expansion of Early Childcare

    Expanding public or publicly subsidized childcare has been a top social policy priority in many industrialized countries. It is supposed to increase fertility, promote children's development and enhance mothers' labor market attachment. In this paper, we analyze the causal effect of one of the largest expansions of subsidized childcare for children up to three years among industrialized countries on ...

    2018| Kai-Uwe Müller, Katharina Wrohlich
  • Economic Bulletin

    Gender pay gap varies greatly by occupation

    The German labor market is characterized by marked occupational segregation between women and men. The median earnings in female dominated occupations are lower than those in male dominated professions. This is one of the reasons for the gender pay gap. However, there are also large differences in earnings between men and women within occupations. These profession-specific gender pay gaps are smaller ...

    26.10.2017| Katharina Wrohlich, Aline Zucco
  • Economic Bulletin

    Gender gaps in pensions and health: Germany, France, and Denmark

    This study quantifies gender-specific differences in retirement income in Germany, Denmark, and France. We show that the “gender pension gap” in Germany is higher than in France and much higher than in Denmark. This ranking is similar to the ranking in the gender pay gap, where Germany has also the highest gender difference. The authors also investigate gender-specific differences in health, ...

    26.10.2017| Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid
  • Economic Bulletin

    Gender parity in German politics: further effort required

    Although many political authorities endorse the basic goal of parity between men and women across the board, reality does not yet reflect this in Germany. In the German Bundestag, for example, at present 37.1 percent of representatives are women. Divided among the six parties with the greatest likelihood of being elected to the Bundestag, a total of 1,979 people are running for office in the upcoming ...

    13.09.2017| Ronny Freier, Johanna Mollerstrom
  • Diskussionspapiere 1716 / 2017

    Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income

    In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing lifetime earnings between individuals with different skill endowments and by providing individuals with insurance against lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and-transfer system offsets around half of the inequality ...

    2017| Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Victoria Prowse
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