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The joint taxation of married couples in Germany with full income splitting is still a major hindrance to the participation of married women in the labor market. In their current financial proposals, the SPD (Social Democratic Party) is calling for income splitting for married couples to be replaced by individual taxation with maintenance deductions, in accordance with existing schemes for divorced ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
1 (2011), 5, 13-19
| Stefan Bach, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich
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Overall monetary redistribution via the tax and transfer system leads to net incomes being much more evenly distributed in Germany than market income. As a result, in 2011, the Gini coefficient decreased from 0.5 for market income to 0.29 for household disposable income. The social security system has a significant share in total income redistribution by the government, making up more than half of ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
5 (2015), 8, 103-111
| Stefan Bach, Markus M. Grabka, Erik Tomasch
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Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2006,
| Stefan Bach, Peter Haan, Onno Hoffmeister, Viktor Steiner
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We examine occupational mobility and its link to wage mobility across a large number of EU countries using worker-level micro data. In doing so, we document the extent, the individual-level determinants and the consequences of occupational mobility in terms of wage outcomes and structural change across the EU. In addition, we identify potential explanations for the observed cross-country variation. ...
In:
de Economist
168 (2020), 79-108
| Ronald Bachmann, Peggy Bechara, Christina Vonnahme
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Using two data sets derived from German administrative data, including a linked employer-employee data set, we investigate the cyclicality of worker and job flows.The analysis stresses the importance of two-sided labour market heterogeneity in this context, taking into account both observed and unobserved characteristics.We find that small firms hire mainly unemployed workers, and that they do so at ...
Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Department of Economics, Technische Universität Dortmund, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Department of Economics and Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI),
2009,
(Ruhr Economic Papers #124)
| Ronald Bachmann, Peggy David
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In this paper, we discuss the importance of sample size in the evaluation of minimum wage effects. We first show which sample sizes are necessary to make reliable statements about the effects of minimum wages on binary outcomes, and second how to determine these sample sizes. This is particularly important when interpreting statistically insignificant effects, which could be due to (i) the absence ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2018,
(IZA DP No. 11867)
| Ronald Bachmann, Rahel Felder, Sandra Schaffner, Marcus Tamm
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In:
Peter Krause, Gerhard Bäcker, Walter Hanesch ,
Combating Poverty in Europe: The German Welfare Regime in Practice
Aldershot: Ashgate
289-304
| Gerhard Bäcker
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In:
Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law
20 (1990), 1, 105-121
| Uschi Backes-Gellner, Bernd Frick
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The affordability of housing has become a major topic of discussion in Germany among both social scientists and the public at large. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we provide rent-income ratios over more than two decades and show how they change with households’ disposable needs-adjusted income. We find a substantial increase in the ratios over the 1990s. In the decade that ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2015,
(SOEPpapers 806)
| Teresa Backhaus, Kathrin Gebers, Carsten Schröder
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Syracuse:
Syracuse University, Maxwell School,
2005,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 408)
| Olof Bäckmann