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How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this question, we use micro data to estimate a structural life-cycle model of individuals’ employment, retirement and consumption decisions. We calculate that, in the case of Germany, an increase of 3.76 years in the pension age thresholds or a cut of 26.8% in the per-year value ...
In:
Journal of Econometrics
178 (2014), 3, 582-601
| Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
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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 ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2015,
(SOEPpapers 750)
| Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
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Oxford:
University of Oxford, Department of Economics,
2008,
(Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series Number 391)
| Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse, Arne Uhlendorff
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Berlin:
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),
2004,
(DIW Discussion Paper No. 419)
| Peter Haan, Viktor Steiner
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users, ed. by Büchel, Felix; D'Ambrosio, Conchita and Frick, Joachim R.)
125 (2005), 1, 39-49
| Peter Haan, Viktor Steiner
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Berlin:
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),
2005,
(DIW Discussion Paper No. 472)
| Peter Haan, Viktor Steiner
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2006,
(IZA DP No. 2424)
| Peter Haan, Viktor Steiner
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We estimate a model of intertemporal male labor supply behavior which explicitly accounts for the effect of income taxation and the transfer system. Moreover, we model the demand-side driven rationing risk that prevents agents from choosing the optimal labor supply state. Our results show that elasticities derived in an unconstrained pure choice model are significantly higher compared to a model with ...
In:
Empirical Economics
44 (2013), 2, 661-683
| Peter Haan, Arne Uhlendorff
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This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current German tax and transfer system for single women optimal. Furthermore, we compare the welfare function conditional on the presence and age of children and asses ...
In:
German Economic Review
11 (2010), 3, 278-301
| Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich
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We develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between these two outcomes. To identify the effect of financial incentives on employment and fertility we exploit variation in the tax and transfer system, which differs by employment state and number of children. Specifically, we simulate in detail the effects of the tax and transfer ...
In:
Labour Economics
18 (2011), 4, 498-512
| Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich