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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879344
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Wie wirken die automatischen Stabilisatoren in der Wirtschaftskrise? : Deutschland im Vergleich mit der EU und den USA
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
Europäischen Union und in den USA in der aktuellen Wirtschaftskrise. Dazu werden zwei Szenarien simuliert: erstens ein … absorbiert werden, verglichen mit 32 % in den USA. Im Fall des Beschäftigungsschocks ist der Unterschied zwischen Europa und den … USA deutlich größer: 48 % in der EU und lediglich 34 % in den USA. Unter der Annahme, dass nur die Nachfrage …
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Automatic stabilisers and economic crisis : US vs Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003989856
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Social protection as an automatic stabilizer
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social protection systems in Europe and the US to provide (income) insurance against macro level shocks in terms of automatic stabilizers. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38% of a proportional income shock and 47% of an idiosyncratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008841933
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922975
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Grundeinkommen vs. Kombilohn : Beschäftigungs- und Finanzierungswirkungen und Unterschiede im Empfängerkreis
Fuest, Clemens (contributor); Peichl, Andreas (contributor) - 2007
The economic literature often argues that basic income schemes and low wage subsidies to employees are just special cases of a negative income tax. In this debate, it is ignored that these concepts target different population subgroups. This paper investigates the different target groups and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635166
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Documentation FiFoSiM : integrated tax benefit microsimulation
Peichl, Andreas (contributor); Schaefer, Thilo (contributor) - 2007 - [Rev.]
This paper describes FiFoSiM, the integrated tax benefit microsimulation and CGE model of the Center of Public Economics at the University of Cologne. FiFoSiM consists of three main parts. The first part is a static tax benefit microsimulation module. The second part adds a behavioural component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635327
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Wie progressiv ist Deutschland? : Das Steuer- und Transfersystem im Europäischen Vergleich
Peichl, Andreas (contributor); Schaefer, Thilo (contributor) - 2008
Deutschland wird häufig ein im europäischen Vergleich überdurchschnittliches Abgabenniveau bescheinigt. Da dies als eine der Hauptursachen für vergleichsweise schwaches Wachstum und hohe Arbeitslosigkeit gilt, werden in der wirtschaftspolitischen Debatte vermehrt Reformen des progressiven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003741753
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The redistributive effects of tax benefit systems in the enlarged EU
Fuest, Clemens; Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
How do different components of the tax and transfer systems affect disposable income inequality? This paper explores the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality analysis based on the standard approach suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906234
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Documentation IZA[psi]MOD : the IZA policy SImulation MODel
Peichl, Andreas; Schneider, Hilmar; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2010
This paper describes IZA[psi]MOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer-employee dataset LIAB. IZA[psi]MOD consists of three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950728