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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298903
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Getting poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305299
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Reforming social welfare as we know it? : a microsimulation study for Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Jacobebbinghaus, Peter - 2003
-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … typically assumed by contributors to recent discussions on the potential labour market effects of welfare reforms in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448565
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Distributional Effects of a Minimum Wage in a Welfare State – The Case of Germany
Mueller, Kai-Uwe - 2014
examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060046
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Reforming Social Welfare as We Know it? A Microsimulation Study for Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Jacobebbinghaus, Peter - 2008
-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … typically assumed by contributors to recent discussions on the potential labour market effects of welfare reforms in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075962
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Reforming social welfare as we know it? : a microsimulation study for Germany
Steiner, Viktor - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428565
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Top incomes and top taxes in Germany
Bach, Stefan (contributor); Corneo, Giacomo (contributor);  … - 2006
We analyze the distribution and taxation of top incomes in Germany during the 1990s on the basis of individual tax … findings are as follows: (i) incomes are highly concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (ii) the German economic … concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (iv) although effective tax rates are significantly lower than statutory ones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003300942
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Top Incomes and Top Taxes in Germany
Corneo, Giacomo - 2006
We analyze the distribution and taxation of top incomes in Germany during the 1990s on the basis of individual tax … findings are as follows: (i) incomes are highly concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (ii) the German economic … concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (iv) although effective tax rates are significantly lower than statutory ones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781544
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Introducing family tax splitting in Germany : how would it affect the income distribution, work incentives and household welfare?
Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2007 - This version: 05/09/2007
We analyze the effects of three alternative proposals to reform the taxation of families relative to the current German system of joint taxation of couples and child allowances: a French-type family splitting and two full family splitting proposals. The empirical analysis of the effects of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630431
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Wage subsidies, work incentives, and the reform of the Austrian welfare system
Steiner, Viktor; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2010
We analyze the labor supply and income effects of a needs-based minimum benefit system ("Bedarfsorientierte Mindestsicherung") to be introduced in Austria by the end of this/beginning of next year. The aim of this reform is to reduce poverty as well as increasing employment rates of recipients...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664559