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In many countries organized as federations, fiscal equalization schemes have been implemented to mitigate vertical or horizontal imbalances. Such schemes usually imply that the member states of the federation can only partly internalize (marginal) tax revenue before redistribution. Aside from the internalized marginal revenue, referred to as the marginal tax-back rate, the remainder is redistributed. ...
In:
German Economic Review
18 (2017), 3, 377-409
| Timm Bönke, Beate Jochimsen, Carsten Schröder
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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 ...
In:
Labour Economics
51 (2018), April 2018, 25-37
| Timm Bönke, Daniel Kemptner, Holger Lüthen
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We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against registry data provided by the Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm substantial disparities between educational achievements of immigrants and natives, we find that the children of Italian immigrants ...
In:
German Economic Review
19 (2018), 1, 1-31
| Timm Bönke, Guido Neidhöfer
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Luxembourg:
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),
2007,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper Series No. 463)
| Timm Bönke, Carsten Schröder
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Palma de Mallorca:
Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ),
2008,
(ECINEQ WP 2008-102)
| Timm Bönke, Carsten Schröder
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Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is implemented to test for statistical significance ...
In:
Economics
6 (2012), 28, 1-43
| Timm Bönke, Carsten Schröder
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The life cycle model predicts that individuals substitute leisure for consumption when they retire. We show that the effect of retirement on various well-being measures available in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) are compatible with this prediction: the overall effect on life satisfaction is negligible, while satisfaction with the free time increases and satisfaction with household income ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
83 (2012), 3, 311-329
| Eric Bonsang, Tobias J. Klein
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We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement decisions are correlated with unobserved characteristics that also affect home production. For males and females, we find that own retirement significantly increases ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2015,
(IZA DP No. 9156)
| Eric Bonsang, Arthur van Soest
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In:
Journal of Income Distribution
5 (1995), 1, 65-92
| John A. Bishop, K. Victor Chow, John P. Formby
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2006,
(IZA DP No. 2537)
| Holger Bonin, Amelie F. Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann