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  • SOEPpapers 397 / 2011

    A Wealth Tax on the Rich to Bring down Public Debt? Revenue and Distributional Effects of a Capital Levy

    The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political agenda. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and estimate the net wealth distribution ...

    2011| Stefan Bach, Martin Beznoska, Viktor Steiner
  • SOEPpapers 396 / 2011

    Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform

    How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the public pension system. We calculate that, ...

    2011| Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
  • Externe Monographien

    Income Uncertainty, Savings, and Asset Allocation of Private Households: Effects of Differential Income Taxation and Policy Reform Evaluation for Germany ; Dissertation

    Berlin: Freie Universität, 2011, VI, 207 S. | Richard Ochmann
  • Diskussionspapiere 1137 / 2011

    A Wealth Tax on the Rich to Bring down Public Debt? Revenue and Distributional Effects of a Capital Levy

    The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political agenda. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and estimate the net wealth distribution ...

    2011| Stefan Bach, Martin Beznoska, Viktor Steiner
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Dynamics in Transitory and Permanent Variation of Wages in Germany

    We employ covariance structure models to decompose the cross-sectional variance of male wages in Germany into its permanent and transitory parts. We find that the steep growth of cross-sectional inequality during the early 2000s is predominantly driven by transitory factors.

    In: Economics Letters 113 (2011), 2, S. 143-146 | Michal Myck, Richard Ochmann, Salmai Qari
  • Externe Monographien

    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 ...

    Berlin: Freie Univ. Berlin, FB Wirtschaftswiss., 2010, 39 S.
    (Discussion Paper / School of Business & Economics ; 2010,11)
    | Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner
  • Other refereed essays

    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 ...

    In: Bank i kredyt 41 (2010), 3, S. 5-34 | Peter Haan, Michal Myck
  • SOEPpapers 340 / 2010

    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 ...

    2010| André Decoster, Peter Haan
  • Diskussionspapiere 1000 / 2010

    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 ...

    2010| Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner
  • Externe Monographien

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

    Bonn: IZA, 2010, 39 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 4929)
    | Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner
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