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 …

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

integration. however, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990 … in East and West Germany. Our results suggest that equal opportunities in Germany have grown since reunification …. Interestingly, EOp is larger in East than in West Germany. …

We examine how inequality evolved in Germany during the 1983-2020 period. Labor market participation of women increased …

We characterize regional inequality in gross incomes at the municipality level in Germany using data from … Germany. Decomposing the increase in inequality in the last two decades into a between and within municipality component, we …, Germany is a country with rather modest interregional inequalities but a growing level of intraregional inequality. …

We use a novel methodology for modeling the socio-economic impacts of economic crisis in Germany, and apply it to …

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly …