There is still considerable dispute about the magnitude of labor supply elasticities. While differences in estimates especially between micro and macro models are recently attributed to frictions and adjustment costs, we show that the variation in elasticities derived from structural labor supply models can also be explained by modeling assumptions. Specifically, we estimate 3,456 different models ...
This article regards the incidence of in-work poverty and how it is reduced by the payment of social transfers in 20 European countries. It combines a micro- and a macro-level perspective in two-level models. The basis for the analysis is micro-data from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) 2005 and macro-data from sources such as the OECD and Eurostat. The broad comparative ...
Der Beitrag untersucht die Frage, inwieweit Erwerbsarbeit in den Ländern Europas ein ausreichendes Einkommen sichert, das die Erwerbsperson und die von ihr abhängigen Familienmitglieder vor Armut schützt. Es wird argumentiert, dass Ausmaß und Struktur der Armut Erwerbstätiger durch das Zusammenspiel von Marktbedingungen, Formen familiären Zusammenlebens und wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Interventionen erklärt ...