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  • Data Documentation 86 / 2016

    An Integrated Micro Data Base for Tax Analysis in Germany

    This paper documents methodology underlying the construction of the integrated data base for our study on “Wer trägt die Steuerlast in Deutschland? – Verteilungswirkungen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems” (Who bears the tax burden in Germany? – Distributional Analyses of the German tax and transfer system). Financial support from the Hans Böckler Stiftung for the project is gratefully acknowledged. ...

    2016| Stefan Bach, Martin Beznoska, Viktor Steiner
  • Externe Monographien

    Welfare Stigma in the Lab: Evidence of Social Signaling

    A puzzle of the modern welfare state is that a large fraction of social benefits is not takenup. Using a laboratory experiment, we present evidence that stigmatization through publicexposure causally reduces the take-up of a redistributive transfer by 30 percentage points.We build a theoretical model that interprets welfare stigma as unfavorable inferencesabout the claimant's type. Our design exogenously ...

    Berlin: WZB, 2016, 28 S.
    (Discussion Paper / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung ; SP II 2016–208)
    | Jana Friedrichsen, Tobias König, Renke Schmacker
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 51/52 / 2016

    Who Bears the Tax Burden in Germany? Tax Structure Slightly Progressive

    A comprehensive, microdata-based analysis of the German tax system's distributional effects in 2015 shows that the total tax burden from direct and indirect taxes is slightly progressive on higher income, but regressive in the lower deciles. Income and corporate taxes are distinctly progressive. They impose hardly any burden on lower- and middle-income households, but the average burden significantly ...

    2016| Stefan Bach, Martin Beznoska, Viktor Steiner
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 51/52 / 2016

    The Tax Burden Is Surprisingly Evenly Distributed: Five Questions for Stefan Bach

    2016
  • Externe Monographien

    Welfare Stigma in the Lab: Evidence of Social Signaling

    A puzzle of the modern welfare state is that a large fraction of social benefits is not takenup. Using a laboratory experiment, we present evidence that stigmatization through publicexposure causally reduces the take-up of a redistributive transfer by 30 percentage points.We build a theoretical model that interprets welfare stigma as unfavorable inferencesabout the claimant's type. Our design exogenously ...

    Berlin: cesifo, 2016, 28 S.
    (Cesifo Working Papers ; 6519)
    | Jana Friedrichsen, Tobias König, Renke Schmacker
  • Research Project

    Behavioral and distributional effects of pension reforms

    Current Project| Public Economics
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany

    We employ German social security records to investigate intragenerational lifetime earnings inequality and mobility of yearly earnings for 35 cohorts, starting with the birth year 1935. Our main result is a striking secular rise of intragenerational inequality in lifetime earnings: West German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 85% more lifetime inequality than their fathers. ...

    In: Journal of Labor Economics 33 (2015) No. 1, S. 171-208 | Timm Bönke, Giacomo Corneo, Holger Lüthen
  • Other refereed essays

    Do Wealthier Households Save More? The Impact of the Demographic Factor

    This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using pooled cross sections of German consumption survey data. Different components of wealth are distinguished, as their impact on the savings rate is not homogeneous. On average, the effect attributed to real estate dominates the other components of wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly ...

    In: International Economics and Economic Policy 12 (2015), 2, S. 163-173 | Ansgar Belke, Christian Dreger, Richard Ochmann
  • Externe Monographien

    The Dynamics of Earnings in Germany: Evidence from Social Security Records

    This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings between 1960 and 2009. Over this period, the German labor market undergoes a heavy transformation and experiences ...

    Essen [u.a.]: RWI [u.a.], 2015, 43 S.
    (Ruhr Economic Papers ; 582)
    | Timm Bönke, Matthias Giesecke, Holger Lüthen
  • Externe Monographien

    The Dynamics of Earnings in Germany: Evidence from Social Security Records

    This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings between 1960 and 2009. Over this period, the German labor market undergoes a heavy transformation and experiences ...

    Berlin: Freie Univ. Berlin, FB Wirtschaftswiss., 2015, 41 S.
    (Discussion Paper / School of Business & Economics ; 2015,26)
    | Timm Bönke, Matthias Giesecke, Holger Lüthen
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