investigate the effect of increases in the Value Added Tax on labor supply and the income distribution in Germany, which is …

up work. Using German microdata over the period 1993 - 2010 we find that recent reforms in Germany increased work …

, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in …-in-differences estimates show thatthe introduction of smoke-free legislation in Germany did not change average smoking behavior within the …

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

addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the …

years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …

Deutschland (FiD)" was initiated. FiD is one of the "related studies" of the SOEP, i.e. a data collection effort closely related …

traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …