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Optimal Tax Progressivity in Unionised Labour Markets: Simulation Results for Germany

Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the one hand, higher progressivity distorts individual labour supply decisions at the hours-of-work margin, on the other hand, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a numerical model for Germany. The model combines ...

Heterogeneous Labour Markets in a Microsimulation-AGE Model: Application to Welfare Reforms in Germany

Discrete Working Time Choice in an Applied General Equilibrium Model

Reforming Social Welfare in Germany - An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis

IT and Communication Technologies Dominate Adolescent Downtime

Today’s teenagers spend their free time very differently than they did 15 years ago: engagement with IT and communications technologies is now their most significant leisure activity. Representative statistics based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) longitudinal study indicate that Internet and computer-based recreation plays a major role for more than 95 percent of all 17-year-olds in Germany, ...

Model Event History of Car and License Availability: How Accessibility Shapes Acquisition and Disposal of Cars

Sound forecasts of car and driver’s license availability are crucial for accurate estimates of future mobility trends and the development of planning strategies. Often these forecasts ignore dynamic trends and spatial influences. Cross-sectional analysis reveals that in areas with good accessibility by alternative modes, many households live with no or only one car even if they can afford a vehicle. ...

Poverty and the Dynamics of Social Networks: An Analysis of German Panel Data

How do social relationships develop when people fall into poverty or suffer from poverty over a long period of time? While literature regarding poverty and social relationships exists, respective dynamics and causality questions remain unanswered. We use longitudinal German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) data from 1992 to 2013 and analyse contact frequency, the size of social networks, as well as their ...

School-to-Work Linkages, Educational Mismatches, and Labor Market Outcomes

A recurring question in public and scientific debates is whether occupation-specific skills enhance labor market outcomes. Is it beneficial to have an educational degree that is linked to only one or a small set of occupations? To answer this question, we generalize existing models of the effects of (mis)match between education and occupation on labor market outcomes. Specifically, we incorporate the ...

Mind the gap—German motherhood risks in figures and game theory issues

After childbirth, while parents are delighted at public cash transfers like the German ‘Elterngeld’ (parental leave benefit), the decline in mothers’ earnings capacity is an awkward issue that tends to hover in the background. This paper aims firstly to make a contribution to quantifying West German mothers’ foregone gross earnings that stem from intermittent labor market participation, due to the ...

It's not all about parents' education, it also matters what they do. Parents' employment and children's school success in Germany

In this paper, we use SOEP data to explore whether parents’ employment has an extra effect on the school achievement of their children, beyond the well‐established effects of education, income and demography. First, we test whether the source of income or parents’ unemployment determine children’s school achievements. Second, we analyze the effect of job prestige and factors of societal engagement ...