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Externe Working Papers
We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 for women. We use a regression discontinuity design which exploits the immediate increase in the ERA between women born in 1951 and 1952. The analysis is based on the German micro census which includes about 370,000 households per year. We focus on heterogeneous labor market effects ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2018,
31 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 11618)
| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid, Michael Peters
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Externe Working Papers
We study interdependencies in spousal labor supply and the effectiveness of intrahousehold insurance in a sample of married couples, where the husband loses his job due to a mass layoff or plant closure using data from the Austrian Social Security Database. We show that in our sample of relatively young couples the shock hits households at crucial stages of family formation, which requires careful ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2018,
56 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 11752)
| Martin Halla, Julia Schmieder, Andrea Weber
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Externe Working Papers
We study the effectiveness of intra-household insurance among married couples when the husband loses his job due to a mass layoff or plant closure. Empirical results based on Austrian administrative data show that husbands suffer persistent employment and earnings losses, while wives' labor supply increases moderately due to extensive margin responses. Wives' earnings gains recover only a tiny fraction ...
London:
CEPR,
2018,
77 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Center for Economic Policy Research ; 13247)
| Martin Halla, Julia Schmieder, Andrea Weber
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Externe Working Papers
We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, and Spain based on the first and second wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be underrepresented in household surveys, we integrate big fortunes from rich lists, estimate a Pareto distribution, and impute the missing rich. In addition to the Forbes list, we rely on national rich ...
Seville:
European Commission,
2018,
53 S.
(JRC Technical Reports : JRC Digital Economy Working Paper ; 2018-04)
| Stefan Bach, Andreas Thiemann, Aline Zucco
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Externe Working Papers
This paper analyzes to what extent parental leave decisions of mothers with young children depend on the decisions made by their coworkers. The identification of peer effects, which are defined as indirect effects of the behavior of a social reference group on individual outcomes, bears various challenges due to correlated characteristics within social groups and endogenous group membership. We overcome ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2016,
39 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 10173)
| Clara Welteke, Katharina Wrohlich
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Externe Working Papers
A puzzle of the modern welfare state is that a large fraction of social benefits is not takenup. Using a laboratory experiment, we present evidence that stigmatization through publicexposure causally reduces the take-up of a redistributive transfer by 30 percentage points.We build a theoretical model that interprets welfare stigma as unfavorable inferencesabout the claimant's type. Our design exogenously ...
Berlin:
cesifo,
2016,
28 S.
(Cesifo Working Papers ; 6519)
| Jana Friedrichsen, Tobias König, Renke Schmacker
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Externe Working Papers
A puzzle of the modern welfare state is that a large fraction of social benefits is not takenup. Using a laboratory experiment, we present evidence that stigmatization through publicexposure causally reduces the take-up of a redistributive transfer by 30 percentage points.We build a theoretical model that interprets welfare stigma as unfavorable inferencesabout the claimant's type. Our design exogenously ...
Berlin:
WZB,
2016,
28 S.
(Discussion Paper / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung ; SP II 2016–208)
| Jana Friedrichsen, Tobias König, Renke Schmacker
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Externe Working Papers
This paper sets out a framework for the analysis of public investments, tangible and intangible, at the level of detail needed for the economic analysis of impacts of public policies influencing economic growth. To do this, we broaden the concept of capital in the public sector from that which is mostly tangible (e.g. physical infrastructure) to that which also includes intangibles and long-lasting ...
Valencia:
Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas,
2016,
39 S.
(SPINTAN Working Paper Series ; 9)
| Erika Schulz, Laura Beckmann
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Externe Working Papers
In aging societies, information on how to reform pension systems is essential to policy makers. This study scrutinizes effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ administrative pension data and a detailed model of the German tax and social security system to estimate a structural dynamic retirement model. We find that ...
Berlin:
Freie Univ. Berlin, FB Wirtschaftswiss.,
2016,
31 S.
(Discussion Paper / School of Business & Economics ; 2016,2)
| Timm Bönke, Daniel Kemptner, Holger Lüthen
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Externe Working Papers
In many countries, important features of municipal government (such as the electoral system, mayors' salaries, and the number of councillors) depend on whether the municipality is above or below arbitrary population thresholds. Several papers have used a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to measure the effects of these threshold-based policies on political and economic outcomes. Using evidence ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2015,
53 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 9553)
| Andrew C. Eggers, Ronny Freier, Veronica Grembi, Tommaso Nannicini