The paper analyses the effect of class size, which stands proxy for school quality, on early career earnings. Using confidential district level information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), it is demonstrated that class size has no discernible effect on early career earnings. This finding is robust to changes in specification and the choice of sub-samples. The economic literature focused ...
We analyze potential labor supply effects of a shift from the current German system of taxation of married couples to a system of limited real income splitting on the basis of econometric household labor supply model embedded in a tax-benefit model. Our simulation results show relatively small labor supply effects of a shift from the current system to one limited real income splitting system. In the ...
Estimating labor supply functions using a discrete rather than a continuous specification has become increasingly popular in recent years. On basis of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) I test which specification of discrete choice is the appropriate model for estimating labor supply: the standard conditional logit model or the random coefficient model. To the extent that effect heterogeneity is ...
We analyze the work incentives and labor supply effects of the so-called mini-jobs reform (subsidies of social security contributions to people with low-earnings jobs) introduced in Germany in April 2003. The analysis is based on a structural labor supply model embedded in a detailed tax-benefit microsimulation model for which we use the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Our simulation results show ...
We analyze potential labor supply effects of a shift from the current German system of joint taxation of married couples to a system of limited real income splitting on the basis of an econometric household labor supply model embedded in a tax benefit model. Our simulation results show relatively small labor supply effects of a shift from the current system to one of limited real income splitting system. ...
Die Personallage an allgemein bildenden Schulen in Deutschland ist nach aktuellen Berechnungen des DIW Berlin angespannt, obwohl zuletzt auch verstärkt Lehrkräfte eingestellt wurden. Die Zahl der Schüler allgemein bildender Schulen wird in Deutschland demographisch bedingt zwar mittelfristig sinken - nur in den neuen Bundesländern steigt sie in der zweiten Hälfte des Zeitraums der Projektion wieder ...
Für die anhaltend hohe Arbeitslosigkeit und die im internationalen Vergleich hohe Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland wird von Wissenschaft und Politik unter anderem auch die Arbeitslosenversicherung verantwortlich gemacht. Insbesondere ältere Arbeitslose haben hierzulande eine sehr lange Anspruchsdauer auf Arbeitslosengeld; die Arbeitslosenhilfe wird im Prinzip unbefristet gewährt. Mit der Agenda ...