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Intergenerational Redistribution with Asymmetric Information: the Case of Non-Observable Savings

Lorz, Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

This paper analyzes intergenerational redistribution in a 2-period overlapping-generations model of a representative … democracy. The model incorporates redistribution between generations and redistribution within generations, allowing for … political economy equilibrium is not Pareto-efficient. Redistribution results in equal consumption levels of individuals with …

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Social Security and Redistribution Within Generations in an Overlapping-Generations Model

Lorz, Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

democracy with asymmetric information. The model considers not only redistribution between generations but also redistribution …, consumption levels are perfectly equalized within both generations. Second, a redistribution bias exists in favor of the old …

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Expanding the welfare system : a proposal for reform

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

The proposal involves the establishment of ?welfare accounts? for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...

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Guilt aversion and redistributive politics: A moral intuitionist approach

Le Garrec, Gilles - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

show that people do care about fairness in their demand for redistribution. In this article, in the spirit of the new … behavior over redistribution as the interaction between (a) an automatic cognitive process which quickly generates intuitions … on the fair level of redistribution, (b) a rational self-oriented reasoning which controls the feeling of guilt …

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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the mechanism currently employed by the German central...

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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world: what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich G. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

taxation and social security contributions, combined with a labour market regulation are the driving forces of the shadow …

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Der Einfluss des Erdölpreises auf die Energiesteuerprognose

Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Zusammenhänge zwischen Erdölpreisen, Kraftstoffpreisen, verbrauchten Mengen und dem Energiesteueraufkommen. Wesentliche Ergebnisse sind, dass die verbrauchten Kraftstoffmengen mit der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Produktion und den Erdölpreisen schwanken. Vor...

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Verhindert ein Mindestlohn eine Ausbeutung des Staates?

Boss, Alfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

It is argued that the German system of supporting low wage income earners by government transfers gives incentives for employers and employees to contract low wages and then to exploit the government. The paper analyses if such incentives do exist. It turns out that this is the case under...

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Incentives to Work: The Case of Germany

Boss, Alfred; Elendner, Thomas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005

Based on a description of the German system of taxes and transfers, the incentives to work are analyzed for several groups of the labor force. The effects of the “Hartz IV” reform (effective from 2005 onwards) on the incentives receive particular attention. It turns out that the marginal...

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Die Änderungen des Einkommensteuertarifs: Folgen für das Lohnsteueraufkommen und die Leistungsanreize

Boss, Achim; Boss, Alfred; Boss, Thomas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The income tax rate structure introduced in 2007 was changed in 2009. The income tax rates will be lowered in 2010, too. The effects on the wage income tax revenues and on the incentives to work are analyzed. It turns out that “bracket creep” will remain a problem in Germany

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