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Maintaining One's Living Standard at Old Age - What Does That Mean?: Evidence Using Panel Data from Germany

Dudel, Christian; Ott, Notburga; Werding, Martin - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find a firm basis for an empirical treatment of this question, we employ a novel approach to assessing an adequate replacement rate vis- a-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We...

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Public Pensions, Changing Employment Patterns, and the Impact of Pension Reforms across Birth Cohorts: A Microsimulation Analysis for Germany

Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across …-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced microdata from the German pension insurance. A microsimulation model is developed … pensions across cohorts taking into account changing demographics and recent pension reforms. Simulations show that pension …

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Distributional and Behavioral Effects of the Gender Wage Gap

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional...

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To Claim or Not to Claim: Estimating Non-take-up of Social Assistance in Germany and the Role of Measurement Error

Frick, Joachim R.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the year 2002, we analyse non-take-up behaviour of Social Assistance (SA) inGermany. According to our simulation as much as 67 percent of the eligible population did not claim SA in that year which is slightly...

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The Benefits and Problems of Linking Micro and Macro Models: Evidence from a Flat Tax Analysis

Peichl, Andreas - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

Microsimulation (MS) and Computable General Equilibrium models (CGE) have both been widely used in policy analysis …

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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 - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

on a behavioral micro-simulation model which integrates an empirical household labor supply model into a detailed tax …

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A Wealth Tax on the Rich to Bring down Public Debt?: Revenue and Distributional Effects of a Capital Levy

Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...

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A New Targeting - A New Take-Up?: Non-take-up of Social Assistance in Germany after Social Policy Reforms

Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Wiemers, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

social policy reforms in 2005. The analysis is based on a microsimulation model, which includes a detailed description of the …

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Distributional Effects of a Minimum Wage in a Welfare State: The Case of Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …

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Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?

Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

compensated by a revenue-neutral reduction in income-related taxes. Based on a dual data base and a microsimulation model of labor …

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