Jedes vierte bis fünfte Kind in Deutschland lebt in relativer Armut, schätzen ExpertInnen. Um soziale Teilhabe für alle Kinder zu ermöglichen, wird in einigen Wahlprogrammen zur Bundestagswahl 2021 gefordert, das Kindergeld deutlich zu erhöhen und eine Kindergrundsicherung einzuführen, die das Existenzminimum von Kindern effektiver sichern soll. Die vorliegenden...
Die vorübergehende Mehrwertsteuersenkung in der zweiten Jahreshälfte 2020 hat die Wirtschaftsleistung in Deutschland um 0,5 Prozent erhöht. Das zeigen Modellsimulationen am DIW Berlin. Der Effekt auf das Bruttoinlandsprodukt hätte sogar bei rund einem Prozent liegen können – wenn die Mehrwertsteuersenkung vollständig an die VerbraucherInnen weitergegeben worden...
The Corona pandemic has had a decisive impact on the year 2020 and an unprecedented (negative) impact on society and the economy. At the core of this simulation study is therefore the question of how the Corona pandemic has affected income levels and social inequality in Germany, and to what extent automatic stabilizers of the social security system and additional financial...
For the design of pension reform it is crucial to disentangle the employment effects related to the substitution and the income effect. In this paper we provide causal evidence about the importance of the income effect which in general has been assumed to be small or non-existent. We exploit a pension reform in Germany that raised pension benefits related to children. For...
Jedes vierte bis fünfte Kind in Deutschland lebt in relativer Armut, schätzen ExpertInnen. Um soziale Teilhabe für alle Kinder zu ermöglichen, wird in einigen Wahlprogrammen zur Bundestagswahl 2021 gefordert, das Kindergeld deutlich zu erhöhen und eine Kindergrundsicherung einzuführen, die das Existenzminimum von Kindern effektiver sichern soll. Die vorliegenden Berechnungen zeigen, dass von der bisherigen ...
Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy’s objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several cohorts in Saxony and two neighboring states. Our difference-in-differences estimations show that, even after ...
Die vorübergehende Mehrwertsteuersenkung in der zweiten Jahreshälfte 2020 hat die Wirtschaftsleistung in Deutschland um 0,5 Prozent erhöht. Das zeigen Modellsimulationen am DIW Berlin. Der Effekt auf das Bruttoinlandsprodukt hätte sogar bei rund einem Prozent liegen können – wenn die Mehrwertsteuersenkung vollständig an die VerbraucherInnen weitergegeben worden wäre. Dennoch hat sie ihr Ziel, kurzfristig ...
This paper evaluates the temporary VAT reduction introduced by the German government over the third and fourth quarter of 2020 as most controversial part of the COVID-19 stimulus package. Critics argue that VAT reductions are ineffective because of limited pass-through of temporary measures to consumer prices and in presence of lockdown measures. Advocates emphasize positive effects on durables and ...
Across the world, tax exemptions for jobs with low earnings intend to incite non-participating workers to rejoin the labor market. However, such tax exemptions may also have negative equilibrium effects. The German minijob tax exemption offers a convenient case to identify equilibrium effects as it applies to some but not to other low-wage jobs. We build and estimate a structural job search model with ...
As the institutional literature convincingly shows, socioeconomic phenomena are to a large extent shaped by the formal institutions, that is, legal acts (laws and ordinances). However, the latter are formulated in a specific language that is difficult to understand, let alone to measure. However, since the early 1990s, a whole branch of economic analysis of governmental regulations has evolved. It is ...