Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Effects of Flat Tax Reforms in Western Europe

Recent success of the flat income tax in Eastern Europe raises questions about whether there is scope for such a policy reform in Western Europe as well. We address this by estimating the potential distributional impact of various flat taxes for selected Western European countries. Our simulations show that in specific circumstances a revenue neutral flat tax reform can increase income equality and ...

Inequality neutral flat tax reforms in Europe: differences between East and West

The flat tax idea is becoming increasingly popular, especially in transition countries in Eastern Europe. The introduction of a flat tax is supposed to have several advantages. However, flat taxes can have a serious drawback in terms of their impact on the distribution of tax burdens. The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of flat tax reforms that do not change the inequality of the income ...

The Distributional Impact of In-Kind Public Benefits in European Countries

International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of disposable income in another. We estimate the size and incidence of in kind or "non cash" benefits from ...

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Starting your career with a temporary job: stepping-stone or 'dead-end'?

This paper uses panel data from the UK (BHPS) and Germany (GSOEP) to investigate the wage effect of entering the labour market with a temporary job. Further than the previous literature that studied the effect of the contract type on wage dynamics in the explained part of a wage regression, we also investigate the effect of the starting contract on the variance of unobserved individual effects and ...