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| Title: | | Analysing welfare reform in a microsimulation-AGE model: the value of disaggregation  |
| Authors: | | Arntz, Melanie Boeters, Stefan Gürtzgen, Nicole Schubert, Stefanie |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEW Discussion Papers 06-76 |
| Abstract: | | We present a combined, consistent microsimulation-AGE model that uses the labour market model PACE-L, data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and a discrete choice labour supply estimation. The model is used to analyse a reform that cuts the social assistance minimum income and lowers the transfer withdrawal rate in order to encourage labour force participation at the lower end of the wage distribution. We compare a disaggregated and an aggregated version of the model as well as a partial and a general equilibrium variant. It turns out that both disaggregation and general equilibrium feedback tend to mitigate the labour supply response to the reform proposal. While some labour supply indicators react quite sensitively to the level of aggregation, most macroeconomic variables are considerably more robust. |
| Subjects: | | applied general equilibrium discrete working time choice labour market wage bargaining labour market reform logit model microsimulation |
| JEL: | | D58 J51 J22 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des ZEW ZEW Discussion Papers
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