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Obesity and developmental functioning among children aged 2-4 years
Cawley, John H. (contributor);  … - 2008
providers. -- Obesity ; human capital ; children ; child development ; Germany ; gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726073
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Employment effects of welfare reforms : evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model
Haan, Peter (contributor); Prowse, Victoria (contributor);  … - 2008
place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726084
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Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? : a microsimulation study for Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008
an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726086
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Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition : the German experience
Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008
positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726098
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Effective taxation of top incomes in Germany, 1992-2002
Bach, Stefan (contributor); Corneo, Giacomo (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003651046
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Effective profit taxation and the elasticity of the corporate income tax base : evidence from German corporate tax return data
Dwenger, Nadja (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008
introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany. Endogeneity of the effective tax rate is controlled for by an instrumental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779441
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Optimal income taxation of married couples : an empirical analysis of joint and individual taxation
Haan, Peter (contributor); Navarro, Dolores (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779678
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Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany : How Would It Affect the Income Distribution and Work Incentives?
Steiner, Viktor (contributor);  … - 2006
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/10003353662
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Apply with caution : introducing UK-style in-work support in Germany
Haan, Peter (contributor); Myck, Michal (contributor) - 2006
into the German tax and benefit system. Our simulation results suggest that introducing in-work Tax Credits in Germany … results call for a high degree of caution as far as importingʺ UK-style Tax Credits to Germany is concerned. In-work support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003285730
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Does more generous student aid increase enrolment rates into higher education? : evaluating the German student aid reform of 2001
Baumgartner, Hans J. (contributor);  … - 2006
(BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304409