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Strengthen national climate policy implementation: Comparative empirical learning & creating linkage to climate finance – SNAPFI

Überblick Das Projekt erforscht die Umsetzung nationaler Klimaschutzbeiträge (NDCs) in Brasilien, Deutschland/der EU, Indien, Indonesien und Südafrika durch forschungsbasierte Politikberatung und Kapazitätsaufbau. Das Projekt wird insbesondere politische und finanzielle Instrumente analysieren, die eine Transformation zu einem klimafreundlichen Pfad unterstützen, sowie zur Mobilisierung privater...

Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by social programs, savings and the labor ...

Gleichberechtigung von Mann und Frau, ein Problem für die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung: Überlegungen und Vorschläge zu der geplanten Reform 1984

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat 1975 festgestellt, daß "... sich die Rolle der Frau in Ehe und Familie rechtlich und tatsächlich zu wandeln begonnen hat ... ". Es verpflichtete den Gesetzgeber, bis zum Jahre 1984 in der Hinterbliebenenversorgung der Sozialversicherung die formalen Voraussetzungen für die Gleichberechtigung von Mann und Frau zu schaffen. Nach der Absicht der Bundesregierung soll bei ...

Verteilungs- und familienpolitische Aspekte der Pläne zur Rentenreform 1984: ein Plädoyer für die ausreichende Anerkennung von Zeiten der Kindererziehung bei der Teilhaberente

Im Vordergrund der politischen Diskussion um die Rentenreform 1984 stehen gegenwärtig Pläne, die nicht kostenneutral verwirklicht werden können. Auch wenn die Rentenfinanzierung zur Zeit gesichert ist, zeigt die für 1981 vorgesehene Beitragserhöhung von 18 auf 18,5 vH die mittelfristig zu erwartenden Schwierigkeiten. Die Verteilungswirkungen des gesamten Vorhabens sind nur schwer zu durchschauen. Folgende ...

Euro Area-Wide Unemployment Insurance: Useless, Desirable, or Indispensable?

The Impact of Short- and Long-Term Participation Tax Rates on Labor Supply

Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period 1993-2010 we find that recent reforms in Germany increased work incentives at the extensive margin measured by the ...

Indirect Fiscal Effects of Long-Term Care Insurance

Informal care by close family members is the main pillar of most longterm care systems. However, due to demographic ageing the need for long-term care is expected to increase while the informal care potential is expected to decline. From a budgetary perspective, informal care is often viewed as a cost-saving alternative to subsidized formal care. This view, however neglects that many family carers ...

Compliance with Endogenous Audit Probabilities

This paper studies the effect of endogenous audit probabilities on reporting behavior in a face-to-face compliance situation such as at customs. In an experimental setting in which underreporting has a higher expected payoff than truthful reporting we find an increase in compliance of about 80% if subjects have reason to believe that their behavior towards an officer influences their endogenous audit ...

Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany

We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker·s altruism, and increases or decreases with a workers laziness depending on his altruism. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find that public sector employees are significantly ...

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 ...