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Fields of Evidence Based Policy Analysis at IZA

Policy Analyses at IZA Hilmar Schneider IZA IDSC Scientific Advisory Board Meeting, Bonn, May 29, 2009. Fields of Evidence Based Policy Analysis at IZA. Evaluation of Active Labor Market Policy Simulation of Reform Proposals Laboratory Experiments Comparative Institutional Analyses.

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Fields of Evidence Based Policy Analysis at IZA

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  1. Policy Analyses at IZA Hilmar SchneiderIZA IDSC Scientific Advisory Board Meeting, Bonn, May 29, 2009

  2. Fields of Evidence Based Policy Analysis at IZA • Evaluation of Active Labor Market Policy • Simulation of Reform Proposals • Laboratory Experiments • Comparative Institutional Analyses

  3. Evaluation Projects at IZA • The Impact of the Labor Market Reform in Germany on the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Training Programs (BMAS) • Evaluation of the Active Labor Market Program "Beautiful Serbia" (UNDP) • Promotion of Self-Employment (IAB) • Vouchers and Case-Workers in Public Training Programs • The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals

  4. Start of training program before 01.01.2003 Start of training program after 01.01.2003 Example: Effectiveness of training programs difference of employment probability between particitpants and non-participants Source: Schneider et al. (2006) month since program entry

  5. difference of differences of employment probabilities of participants and non-participants before and after the reform Example: Reform effect of training programs difference of employment probability Source: Schneider et al. (2006) month since program entry

  6. Simulation Projects at IZA • Potential Employment Effects of a dual wage subsidy in the low wage sector (MAGS NRW) • Impact Assessment of a wage subsidy proposed by the German Council of Economic Advisors (SVR) • Employment Impact and Fiscal Impact of the IZA Workfare Model • Employment Impact and Fiscal Impact of the Bofinger/Walwei-Concept (BMF) • Employment Impact and Fiscal Impact of the Althaus Proposal for a Basic Income • Employment Impact and Fiscal Impact of the Workfare Concept Proposed by the Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWi)

  7. Simulation Models • Policy simulations can be interpreted as quasi-experiments to ex-ante analyze reform proposals • Map the complex tax benefit system and provide a tool to answer "what if" questions about different reform options • Predict the impacts of policy changes on individuals (gains and losses, income distribution, labor supply), the government budget and key aggregated economic indicators (e.g. growth, employment, prices, consumption)

  8. Microsimulation (MSM) • Model structural characteristics of individual micro units within a particular system • Great flexibility regarding the mapping of the complex tax benefit system • Simulate first round effects (no behavioral responses) and second round labor supply effects • Partial equilibrium models that do not consider the broader economic environment in which the micro units are acting

  9. IZAψMOD: Status Quo • Static behavioral microsimulation model • Data: GSOEP = representative panel survey of private households • Tax benefit calculator: direct taxes, social insurance contributions and cash benefits • Structural discrete choice household labor supply model ⇒ Econometric estimation of labor supply elasticities

  10. IZAψMOD: Structure Currently under construction

  11. Example: Comparison between Workfare and Basic Income • Debate about reform to boost employment of low-wage / low-skilled workers • Several reform proposals with different flavors of some kind of negative income tax concept (low wage subsidies, basic income) • Illustration of application of IZAψMOD by comparing two extreme scenarios: basic income vs. workfare • IZA workfare concept (IZA): • Receipt of social benefit for people capable of work is conditioned on (fulltime) participation requirement • This concept sets negative incentives for people not working • Althaus’ basic income (ABI): • Unconditional receipt of universal basic income (800 € per month including health insurance) • Taper rate of income: 50% until 1600 €, above 1600€: flat income tax of 25% • Concept of negative income tax with the idea of setting positive labour supply incentives

  12. Application: Results I

  13. Application: Results II

  14. Application: Results III

  15. Application: Results IV a) IZA Workfare (IZA) • Large employment effects: about 1.4 million individuals additionally supply positive working hours compared to the reference scenario 2007 (slightly less in full time equivalent) • Positive budget effects: increase in net revenue of about 25 billion euros (including second round effects) compared to the reference scenario 2007 (first round effect: about 2.5 billion Euro) • In the medium-term, about 500,000 workfare jobs are needed within the framework of this concept which leads to additional costs b) Althaus’ Basic Income (Althaus) • Sizeable positive employments effects: more than 400,000 individuals entering the labor market compared to the reference scenario (619,000 in full time equivalent) • However, there are massive negative budget effects: in the medium term, the budget will be burdened by about 220 billion Euros (and even 230 billion without accounting for behavioral responses)

  16. Conclusions and Outlook • Access to micro data is an important pre-condition for reliable policy analysis • Heterogeneity on the micro level is a key for the identification of structural and causal relationships • However, policy analyses are limited by survey data • Reliability could be improved by usage of official statistics • Access to micro data at official statistics has remarkably improved during the last decade • However, it’s potential is still underdeveloped, because economic key variables are collected independently (e.g. monthly wages and working hours of workers, investment and production of firms) • Legislative initiatives are required in order to reach new horizons

  17. IZA – Shaping the Future of Labor Hilmar Schneider IZA, 53072 Bonn, Germany Tel: +49 (0) 228 - 38 94 220 Fax: +49 (0) 228 - 38 94 510 E-Mail: schneider@iza.org Web: http://www.iza.org

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