Thema Verteilung

Labor Market and Income Effects of a Legal Minimum Wage in Germany

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 ...

Safety Net Still in Transition: Labour Market Incentive Effects of Social Support in Poland and Germany

Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by now complete. However, the route Polish governments have so far taken concerning the system of support for low-income families still implies very different poverty alleviation schemes compared to those found in many developed countries. We examine the Polish system of social assistance in a comparative context with Germany ...

Aufkommens- und Verteilungswirkungen einer Grünen Vermögensabgabe: Forschungsprojekt im Auftrag der Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen

Household Savings Decision and Income Uncertainty

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 ...

Labor Market and Income Effects of a Legal Minimum Wage in Germany

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 ...

Distributional and Welfare Effects of Germany's Year 2000 Tax Reform

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 ...

Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply

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 ...

Staatsverschuldung und gesamtwirtschaftliche Vermögensbilanz: öffentliche Armut, privater Reichtum

Im Verlauf der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise hat die Staatsverschuldung auch in Deutschland stark zugenommen. In Relation zum Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP) wird sie von 65 Prozent Ende 2007 auf voraussichtlich 75,5 Prozent Ende 2010 steigen. Das staatliche Nettovermögen (Vermögenswerte minus Schulden) ist in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten deutlich gesunken, von 52 Prozent des BIP im Jahr 1991 auf sechs ...

Mit Wirtschaftswachstum und Konsolidierung gegen die Staatsverschuldung: Fünf Fragen an Stefan Bach

Mindestlöhne, Lohnsubventionen und Einkommenssicherung im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Verteilungswirkungen von Reformalternativen für Deutschland

Staatliche Instrumente zur Einkommenssicherung im Niedriglohnbereich durch 'Kombilohn-Modelle' existieren auch in Deutschland schon seit längerem und wurden im Zuge der jüngsten Arbeitsmarktreformen ausgeweitet. Aktuelle Reformvorschläge für Deutschland zielen zum einen auf die weiterführende Reform des Niedriglohnsektors, zum anderen auf dessen Rückführung durch die Einführung eines gesetzlichen Mindestlohns. ...