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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

    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
  • Diskussionspapiere 950 / 2009

    The Impact of Losses on Income Tax Revenue and Implicit Tax Rates of Different Income Sources: Evidence from Microsimulation Using Tax Statistics for Germany

    In order to calculate the burden of a comprehensive and progressive income tax falling on a certain income source, an apportionment scheme for the entire tax burden has to be chosen. This raises the question of how to deal with losses, which is relevant for Germany in view of the heavy losses from renting. Using micro data from tax statistics we analyze the income tax shares of functional income sources ...

    2009| Stefan Bach, Hermann Buslei
  • SOEPpapers 241 / 2009

    Expected Future Earnings, Taxation, and University Enrollment: A Microeconometric Model with Uncertainty

    Taxation changes the expectations of prospective university students about their future level and uncertainty of after-tax income. To estimate the impact of taxes on university enrollment, we develop and estimate a structural microeconometric model, in which a high-school graduate decides to enter university studies if expected lifetime utility from this choice is greater than that anticipated from ...

    2009| Frank M. Fossen, Daniela Glocker
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    From Bottom to Top: The Entire Income Distribution in Germany, 1992 - 2003

    We analyze the distribution of market income in Germany in the period 1992 to 2003 on the basis of an integrated dataset that encompasses the whole spectrum of the population, from the very poor to the very rich. We find a modest increase of the Gini coefficient, a substantial drop of median income and a remarkable growth of the income share accruing to the economic elite, which we define as the richest ...

    In: The Review of Income and Wealth 55 (2009), 2, S. 303-330 | Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo, Viktor Steiner
  • Diskussionspapiere 791 / 2008

    Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty? A Microsimulation Study for Germany

    In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal minimum wage of € 7.5 per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax-benefit system ...

    2008| Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner
  • Diskussionspapiere 767 / 2008

    Effective Taxation of Top Incomes in Germany, 1992 - 2002

    We analyze the taxation of top personal incomes in Germany on the basis of an integrated data file of individual tax returns and a general household survey for the years 1992 - 2002. The unique feature of this integrated data set is that it includes all taxpayers in the top percentile of the gross income distribution. We show that despite substantial tax base erosion and significant reductions of top ...

    2008| Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo, Viktor Steiner
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