This cumulative dissertation consists of three contributions that empirically analyse economic risks at the level of the individual and the household from different perspectives. The first analysis "Future public pensions and changing employment patterns across cohorts" aims to quantify the effects of labour market changes and pension reforms across birth cohorts in East and West Germany. The pension ...
This thesis centers on the question who actually bears the loads and the benefits of a policy. While the statutory incidence of policy measures can easily be looked up in the commensurate laws the economic incidence maybe a different matter altogether. The thesis at hand sheds light on the incidence of three dimensions of tax and labor market policy; the effect of a minimum wage on the wage structure ...
Die EEG-Umlage, die Stromverbraucher für die Förderung von Strom aus erneuerbaren Energien zahlen müssen, wird im Jahr 2013 stark steigen. Dadurch erhöht sich der Anteil der Ausgaben für Strom an den Konsumausgaben privater Haushalte von durchschnittlich rund 2,3 Prozent im Jahr 2011 und knapp 2,4 Prozent im Jahr 2012 auf knapp 2,5 Prozent im Jahr 2013. Davon entfallen 0,5 Prozentpunkte - einschließlich ...
This thesis analyzes the determinants of university enrollment and successful completion of university studies. The main questions analyzed are: What are the enrollment effects of different tuition fee schemes? How does taxation of future earnings affect enrollment? What is the impact of student aid on the success of studies? To answer the first two questions, I develop a structural university enrollment ...
