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Progressive tax-like effects of inflation : fact or myth? : the U.S. post-war experience

Süssmuth, Bernd; Wieschemeyer, Matthias - 2019

Inflation and earnings growth can push some tax payers into higher brackets in the absence of inflation-indexed schedules. Moreover, inflation may affect the composition of individuals’ income sources. As a result, depending on the relative tax burden of labor and capital, inflation may...

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Taxation, automation capital, and the functional income distribution

Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2020 - Preliminary version: February 27, 2020

The functional income distribution in the US and most OECD countries has been characterized by an increasing capital income share and a declining wage share over the last decades. We present new evidence for the US economy that this fact is not only explained by technical change and...

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Income inequality and redistribution in Lithuania : the role of policy, labor market, income, and demographics

Černiauskas, Nerijus; Sologon, Denisa M.; O'Donoghue, … - In: Review of income and wealth 68 (2022), pp. S131-S166

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Ultra-broadband for all in Europe : can access regulation hinder innovation and welfare maximisation?

Amendola, Giovanni Battista - 2015

widely adopted in a number of countries including, among others, Germany, the UK and Italy. The paper addresses FTTC …

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Downward drifting sticky floors? : evidence on the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany

Ludsteck, Johannes; Lehmer, Florian - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete

Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition …

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Knowledge-intensive employment growth in the Dutch Randstad and the German Rhine-Ruhr area : the impact of centrality and peripherality : paper prepared for presentation at the 53r...

Kronenberg, Kristin; Volgmann, Kati - 2013 - This version: February 28, 2013

This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...

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Like father, like son? : a comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US

Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2019

analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality … panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for Germany and the PSID for the US. In Germany, 67 per cent of sons born … 48 per cent in the 1971-75 birth cohort, while it almost did not change in Germany. Overall, absolute but also relative …

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On the link between job polarisation and wage inequality : a regional approach for Germany

Reinhold, Mario - 2016

Job polarisation and increasing wage inequality is observed in many rich countries, including Germany. Both phenomena … polarisation upon wage inequality in Germany by benefitting from regional variation in job polarisation and applying distributional …

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Deindustrialization and tertiarization and the polarization of household incomes : the example of urban agglomerations in Germany

Goebel, Jan; Gornig, Martin - 2014

. The tertiarization in Germany since the 1990s has been accompanied by an increasing polarization of household income …." The income polarization in Germany is likely to have multiple causes, some of which are directly linked to policies such …

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The inheritance and gift tax in Germany reform potentials for tax revenue, efficiency and distribution

Beznoska, Martin; Hentze, Tobias; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2020

, and to increase incentives to work by lowering the tax burden on labour, which is especially high in Germany according to … effects of inheritances on the wealth distribution are evaluated for Germany first and are set into comparison with Austria … is applied to design an inheritance tax reform for Germany. The potential tax revenue of the reform can be estimated by …

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