This study examines how inheritance and gift tax systems in combination with gendered parental transfer behavior strengthen gender wealth inequalities. Gender differences in transfers can be reproduced if men benefit differently than women from tax exemptions. This might happen when men and women receive different types of assets where only some are tax exempted. To investigate gendered parental...
Dieses Projekt dient der Weiterentwicklung der Open Source Software GETTSIM . GETTSIM ist ein in der Programmiersprache Python geschriebenes Simulationsmodell, welches das Deutsche Steuer – und Transfersystem abbilden kann. Die Software bietet in Forschung sowie Lehre viele verschiedene Anwendungsmöglichkeiten und wird in Kooperation mit dem IZA (Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit) sowie weiteren...
This project serves to further develop the open source software GETTSIM. GETTSIM is a simulation model written in the programming language Python, which can depict the German tax and transfer system. The software offers a multitude of applications in research and teaching. It is developed in cooperation with the IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) as well as other German research institutes and...
Policymakers widely use tax-based incentives to spur investment and stimulate economic growth. Tax policy has been at the center of emergency measures during the Covid-19 pandemic, and it is now as countries face a significant deterioration in public finances. Yet, empirical tax research is still in disagreement on how taxes affect business investment. We investigate the effect of local business...
In this project, a top-corrected wealth distribution is estimated on the basis of the inheritance tax statistics and the SOEP. We analyze the concentration of wealth, the portfolios of the wealthy, the importance of inherited wealth, the gender inheritance gap and the gender wealth gap as well as reactions to inheritance taxation.
In diesem Projekt wird auf Basis der Erbschaftsteuerstatistik und des SOEP eine spitzenkorrigierte Vermögensverteilung geschätzt. Analysiert werden die Vermögenskonzentration, die Portfolios der Hochvermögenden, die Bedeutung von ererbten Vermögen, der Gender Inheritance Gap und der Gender Wealth Gap sowie Ausweichreaktionen bei der Erbschaftsbesteuerung.
We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity by age, education, wealth, sex and household composition. In aggregate, social assistance dominates unemployment insurance; however, the opposite holds ...