This paper empirically investigates distributional and welfare effects of Germany's year 2000 income tax reform. The reform is simulated in an ex-ante behavioral microsimulation approach. Dead weight loss of changes in capital income taxation is estimated in a structural model for household savings and asset demand applied to German survey data. Significant reductions in tax rates result in income ...
The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models of labour supply. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the analysis. They also make the ethical priors, implicit in any interpersonal comparison, more explicit. On the ...
In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax-benefit system and net household incomes, also ...
This paper empirically investigates the effects of changes in the interest rate as well as transitory income uncertainty on households' consumption-savings decision. Applying a structural demand model to German survey data, we estimate the uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in line with the literature, to around zero. Accordingly, any policy-induced variation of net returns to savings ...
In verschiedenen Forschungsprojekten und Studien hat sich die Abteilung Staat mit Fragen der Vermögensbesteuerung beschäftigt (Vermögensabgabe, Vermögensteuer, Erbschaftsteuer, Grundsteuer, steuerliche Immobilienbewertung).
We analyzed the economic impact and institutional issues of wealth taxation (recurrent wealth tax, inheritance and gift tax, local taxes on land and buildings, one-time capital levy, real estate appraisal).
Inhalt dieses Projekts ist die kontinuierliche Weiterentwicklung des Steuer-Transfer-Simulationsmodells (STSM) des DIW Berlin auf Basis von Daten des Sozio-Oekonomischen Panels (SOEP). Anhand dieses Mikrosimulationsmodells ist es möglich, die Verteilungs- und Arbeitsangebotswirkungen verschiedener sozial-, familien- oder steuerpolitischer Reformen zu untersuchen. Das Modell wird regelmä...
Die Abteilung Staat im DIW Berlin veröffentlicht regelmäßig Berichte, Stellungnahmen und Medienbeiträge zu aktuellen Fragen der Steuer- und Sozialpolitik