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This paper empirically investigates distributional and welfare effects of Germany’s year 2000 income tax reform. The reform is simulated in an ex-ante behavioral microsimulation approach. Dead weight loss of changes in capital income taxation is estimated in a structural model for household savings and asset demand applied to German survey data. Significant reductions in tax rates result in income ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2010,
(DIW Discussion Paper No. 1083)
| Richard Ochmann
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Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(DIW Berlin Data Documentation 64)
| Richard Ochmann, Frank M. Fossen
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This study examines the effects of parental labor market activities on children's education attainment. In contrast to the existing literature we consider parental experiences until the children graduate from school. In addition, the effects of the regional economic environment during teacher's decision about the secondary school track are analyzed. Using data drawn from the German Socio-Economic ...
Rostock:
University of Rostock,
2008,
(Thünen Series of Applied Economic Theory - Working paper No. 95)
| Carsten Ochsen
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In this study, we examine how economic performance during the child-specific primary school phase, during which teachers make recommendations regarding secondary school level, affects the educational level achieved ultimately by these children. Using data for Germany, we find that an economic downturn, coupled with increased unemployment, affects children's education attainment negatively. In ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2010,
(SOEPpapers 285)
| Carsten Ochsen
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The formation of expectations is considered a fundamental aspect of the decision process when people reason about entering self-employment. We evaluate the accuracy of newly self-employed individuals’ predictions of their overall future well-being. Based on individual panel data for Germany, we find that they, on average, are overly optimistic when we compare their predictions right after the status ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
95 (2021), 101779
| Reto Odermatt, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Alois Stutzer
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The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being after facing major life events. Based on individual panel data, we compare people’s life satisfaction forecasts reported in the first interview after a major life event with their actual evaluations five years later on. This ...
In:
Journal of the European Economic Association
17 (2017), 1, 245–283
| Reto Odermatt, Alois Stutzer
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Successful assimilation of immigrants into their host country improves immigrants' labor market outcomes and consequently benefits the host country. I use marriage between an immigrant man and a German woman (intermarriage) as a measure of assimilation. Married immigrant men might benefit even more from intermarriage than either single men or those married to other immigrants through legal benefits, ...
2017,
| Aida Odobasic
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We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is difficult to gauge the magnitude of the ...
Amsterdam:
Tinbergen Institute,
2013,
(Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper TI 2013-170/V)
| Owen O'Donnel, Eddy van Doorslaer, Tom van Ourti
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Cambridge:
University of Cambridge, Microsimulation Unit,
2004,
(EUROMOD Working Paper No. EM7/01)
| Cathal O'Donoghue, Massimo Baldini, Daniela Mantovani
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Paris:
OECD,
1993,
(Employment Outlook)
| OECD