Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/72465 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 13-021
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation, featuring dynamic complementarities in skill formation over the life cycle, and calibrated for the period of ongoing demographic transition until 2080. If policy aims at reducing the inequality of lifetime income among people of the same generation, educational investments for people younger than or equal to seventeen do a better job compared to transfers in adulthood. In an intergenerational perspective all cohorts born after 1976 will gain from tax-financed additional investments in preschooleducation introduced in 2011. Additional investments into secondary education will, as a rule, not cause life time income to raise enough to compensate its costs.
Subjects: 
early education
demographic change
inequality over the life span
redistributive policy
JEL: 
D63
H55
I20
J11
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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