Publications of the Research Group Inequality and Public Policy

Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a…

We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a number of key family policy measures based on data for Germany. Parental leave benefits,…

• Some Government Redistribution Measures Shown to Reduce Income Inequality
• Deployment of Fibre Optic Networks: Making Public Subsidies more Efficient
• Households Insured Against Flooding Take more Precautionary…

There is still considerable dispute about the magnitude of labor supply elasticities. While differences in micro and macro estimates are recently attributed to frictions and adjustment costs, we show that…

• China’s Power on Rare Earth Market in Decline
• Direct Democracy and Taxation
• Failed Entrepreneurs Fail Again
• Germany’s ICT Sector Continues to Grow
• Q&A: Distributive Justice in Germany? Germany's Welfare State Fares…

The study investigates to what extent key measures of family related policy in Germany contribute to economic stability of households and to reconciliation of family and work. The comparative assessment is based…