Nearly 25 years after the German reunification, vastly different living conditions between East and West Germany still … prevailing in East Germany as well as differentials in labor market outcomes. Moreover, Germans in younger cohorts feature more …

, 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 …

of German households. Similar to most other central European countries, Germany is likely to face a period of increasing …

the top end of the wealth distribution in Germany. The SOEP-P population has about 21 times higher net wealth on average …

evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married …