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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
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 supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income oor, with a minor role for temporary earnings-related Unemployment Insurance. Reecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses, the optimal generosity of Social Assistance decreases in the proportion of married individuals in the population. The link between optimal program design and the family context is strongest in low-educated populations.
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Englisch
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Series: Diskussionsbeiträge ; No. 2015/17
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Wirtschaft
Demographic Economics: Public Policy
Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
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life-cycle labor supply
family labor supply
unemployment insurance
social assistance
design of benefit programs
intra-household insurance
household savings
employment risk
added worker effect
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Haan, Peter
Prowse, Victoria
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Veröffentlichung
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Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft
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Berlin
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2015
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Associated
- Haan, Peter
- Prowse, Victoria
- Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft
Time of origin
- 2015
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Peter Haan, B. zu Owen, wegen Diebstahls von zwei silbernen Löffeln und einem Brotmesser zu Kirchheim gef., jedoch auf Fürbitte freigel., nachdem er sich anstatt des Rechts für eine Verschreibung entschieden hatte, gelobt, zur Strafe für sein Vergehen 15 fl an dem Herzog zu zahlen, sich künftig wohl zu verhalten, und schwört U. Er stellt ferner 3 Bürgen, die sich verpflichten, ihn im Fall der Übertretung dieser U. binnen 14 Tagen festzunehmen und der Obrigkeit zu überantworten oder, wenn dies nicht geschähe, 100 fl zu bezahlen. Bürgen: Veit Knoll, Lentz Henlin, Gall Bintz, alle von Owen, seine Brüder und Vettern.
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Peter Haan, B. zu Owen, wegen Diebstahls von zwei silbernen Löffeln und einem Brotmesser zu Kirchheim gef., jedoch auf Fürbitte freigel., nachdem er sich anstatt des Rechts für eine Verschreibung entschieden hatte, gelobt, zur Strafe für sein Vergehen 15 fl an dem Herzog zu zahlen, sich künftig wohl zu verhalten, und schwört U. Er stellt ferner 3 Bürgen, die sich verpflichten, ihn im Fall der Übertretung dieser U. binnen 14 Tagen festzunehmen und der Obrigkeit zu überantworten oder, wenn dies nicht geschähe, 100 fl zu bezahlen. Bürgen: Veit Knoll, Lentz Henlin, Gall Bintz, alle von Owen, seine Brüder und Vettern.
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The heterogeneous effects of social assistance and unemployment insurance: Evidence from a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Benefits in a Life-cycle model of Family Labor Supply and Savings
The heterogeneous effects of social assistence and unemployment insurance: Evidence from a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
The design of unemployment transfers: Evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model
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Peter Haan, B. zu Owen, wegen Diebstahls von zwei silbernen Löffeln und einem Brotmesser zu Kirchheim gef., jedoch auf Fürbitte freigel., nachdem er sich anstatt des Rechts für eine Verschreibung entschieden hatte, gelobt, zur Strafe für sein Vergehen 15 fl an dem Herzog zu zahlen, sich künftig wohl zu verhalten, und schwört U. Er stellt ferner 3 Bürgen, die sich verpflichten, ihn im Fall der Übertretung dieser U. binnen 14 Tagen festzunehmen und der Obrigkeit zu überantworten oder, wenn dies nicht geschähe, 100 fl zu bezahlen. Bürgen: Veit Knoll, Lentz Henlin, Gall Bintz, alle von Owen, seine Brüder und Vettern.