Search

clear
0 filter(s) selected
close
Go to page
remove add
312 results, from 281
  • SOEPpapers 408 / 2011

    The Effect of Health and Employment Risks on Precautionary Savings

    This paper extends the idea of using ex-ante risk measures in a model of precautionary savings by explicitly simulating future net-income risks. The uncertainty measure takes into account the interdependency of labour market status and health. The model is estimated for prime age males using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study for years 2001-2007. The empirical analysis is conducted using a measure ...

    2011| Johannes Geyer
  • Externe Monographien

    Income Uncertainty, Savings, and Asset Allocation of Private Households: Effects of Differential Income Taxation and Policy Reform Evaluation for Germany ; Dissertation

    Berlin: Freie Universität, 2011, VI, 207 S. | Richard Ochmann
  • SOEPpapers 419 / 2011

    Redistribution and Insurance in the German Welfare State

    Welfare states redistribute both between individuals reducing annual inequality and over the life-cycle insuring against income risks. But studies measuring redistribution often focus only on a one-year period. Using German SOEP data from 1984 to 2009, long-term inequality over a 20-year period is computed and then decomposed into an inter- and intra-individual component. Results show that annual inequality ...

    2011| Charlotte Bartels
  • SOEPpapers 399 / 2011

    Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment

    Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in their life satisfaction when they retire. These results are robust to controlling for changes in other life ...

    2011| Clemens Hetschko, Andreas Knabe, Ronnie Schöb
  • Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 4 / 2001

    Japanese Welfare State Reforms in the 1990s and Beyond: How Japan is Similar to and Different from Germany

    Beginning with a review of Japanese welfare state reform in 1990s, we discuss similarities and differences between Japan and Germany in the implementation of three major reforms: public pension reform, health care reform and introduction of long-term care insurance. The latest public pension reform in both countries has the same aim: to establish middle- and long-term stability of the system against ...

    2001| Tetsuo Fukawa
  • Externe Monographien

    The Design of Unemployment Transfers: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

    Bonn: IZA, 2010, 38 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 4792)
    | Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
  • Diskussionspapiere 986 / 2010

    The Design of Unemployment Transfers: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

    In this paper we use a dynamic structural life-cycle model to analyze the employment, fiscal and welfare effects induced by unemployment insurance. The model features a detailed specification of the tax and transfer system, including unemployment insurance benefits which depend on an individual's employment and earnings history. The model also captures the endogenous accumulation of experience which ...

    2010| Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
  • SOEPpapers 219 / 2009

    Reversing the Question: Does Happiness Affect Consumption and Savings Behavior?

    I examine the impact of happiness on consumption and savings behavior using data from the DNB Household Survey from the Netherlands and the German Socio-Economic Panel. Instrumenting individual happiness with regional sunshine, the results suggest that happier people save more, spend less, and have a lower marginal propensity to consume. Happier people take more time for making decisions and have more ...

    2009| Cahit Guven
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    The Effects of Income Taxation on Severance Pay

    Severance pay often results from a bargain between the firm and the employee to avoid or terminate a legal conflict. We theoretically investigate how income taxation affects these negotiations. Using panel data from West Germany and exploiting a change in tax law in 1999, we find that a higher income tax on severance pay reduces the probability of obtaining it and - in some specifications - also lowers ...

    In: Labour Economics 16 (2009), 1, S. 107-118 | Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg
  • SOEPpapers 21 / 2007

    Precautionary Saving and Income Uncertainty in Germany: New Evidence from Microdata

    The saving ratio of households in Germany has increased in the past few years when the income trend was weak. This could be due to precautionary saving. In this paper, the importance of precautionary saving against income uncertainty is analyzed empirically using micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP). Wealth in 2002 is regressed on alternative measures of income uncertainty ...

    2007| Nikolaus Bartzsch
312 results, from 281
keyboard_arrow_up