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Wie progressiv ist Deutschland? : das Steuer- und Transfersystem im europäischen Vergleich

Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - 2008

When comparing tax benefit systems across Europe, Germany is usually regarded as a country with a high level of taxes … the ongoing policy debate in Germany. In this paper, we compare the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax …Deutschland wird häufig ein im europäischen Vergleich überdurchschnittliches Abgabenniveau bescheinigt. Da dies als …

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The elasticity of taxable income in the presence of deduction possibilities

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2015

administrative tax records, we exploit several tax reforms that were implemented in Germany between 2001 and 2008. Our main estimates …

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Happy taxpayers? : income taxation and well-being

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2012

This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax...

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The benefits and problems of linking micro and macro models : evidence from a flat tax analysis

Peichl, Andreas - 2009

tax reform proposals for Germany. Taking feedback effects into account has important implications for the evaluation of …

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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis : US vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...

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Jointly optimal taxes for different types of income

Hermle, Johannes; Peichl, Andreas - 2018

and the taxation of couples. For these applications, we calculate income type-specific optimal tax rates for Germany using …

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The taxation of couples

Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C.; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2023

This paper studies the tax treatment of couples. We develop two different approaches. One is tailored to the analysis of tax systems that stick to the principle that the tax base for couples is the sum of their incomes. One is tailored to the analysis of reforms toward individual taxation. We...

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