10. Februar 2025 – Union, FDP und AfD versprechen umfangreiche Steuerentlastungen, die das Staatsdefizit um bis zu vier Prozentpunkte des Bruttoinlandsprodukts (BIP) hochtreiben und vor allem Besser- und Hochverdienende entlasten. SPD und Grüne wollen Steuerentlastungen auf die unteren und mittleren Einkommen konzentrieren und die Steuern bei Hochverdienenden und Vermögenden erhöhen....
Union, FDP und AfD versprechen umfangreiche Steuerentlastungen, die das Staatsdefizit um bis zu vier Prozentpunkte des Bruttoinlandsprodukts (BIP) hochtreiben und vor allem Besser- und Hoch-verdienende entlasten. SPD und Grüne wollen Steuerentlastungen auf die unteren und mittleren Einkommen konzentrieren und die Steuern bei Hochverdienenden und Vermögenden erhöhen. Wachstumseffekte reduzieren die ...
Declining labor force participation of older men throughout the 20th century and recent increases in participation have generated substantial interest in understanding the effect of public pensions on retirement. The National Bureau of Economic Research's International Social Security (ISS) Project, a long-term collaboration among researchers in a dozen developed countries, has explored this and related ...
This article outlines income and wealth distribution trends in Germany since the 19th century, compared to other Westernindustrialised countries. We first discuss the evolution of aggregate wealth-to-income ratios. We then explore how the concentration ofincome and wealth among the top percentile evolved since the 19th century. For the period after 1990, we analyse the entire distributionsfrom top ...
This paper provides the _rst time series of the gender earnings ratio for the full-time employed workforce in Germany since the 1870s and compares Ger- many's path with the Swedish and U.S. cases. The industrialization period yielded slow advances in economic gender relations due to women's delayed inclusion in the industrial workforce. The _rst half of the 20th century exhib- ited a marked leap. In ...
This paper examines the effect of increasing foreign staffing on the labor market outcomes of native workers in the German long-term care sector. Using administrative social security data covering the universe of long-term care workers and policy-induced exogenous variation, we find that increased foreign staffing reduces labor shortages but has diverging implications for the careers of native workers ...
This chapter provides the first extensive overview of mental health in Germany since reunification. Relying on data from the Socio-Economic Panel, an annual, representative panel study running since 1984 (in East Germany since 1990), this chapter reports the prevalence of mental health conditions in West and East Germany across 30 years. Specifically, the data provides insights into life satisfaction, ...
