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Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269448
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Top Incomes and Top Taxes in Germany
Corneo, Giacomo - 2006
We analyze the distribution and taxation of top incomes in Germany during the 1990s on the basis of individual tax … findings are as follows: (i) incomes are highly concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (ii) the German economic … elite relies much less than elites in France or the US upon income from wages and salaries; (iii) income taxes are highly …
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Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks in Real-Time : A Novel Method Applied to the COVID-19 Crisis in Germany
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin; … - 2021
and policy responses in real-time and provide the first application to Germany in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250264
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The Role of Short-Time Work and Discretionary Policy Measures in Mitigating the Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis in Germany
Christl, Michael; Poli, Silvia De; Hufkens, Tine; … - 2021
In this paper, we investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on German household income using a micro-level approach. We combine a microsimulation model with labour market transition techniques to simulate the COVID-19 shock on the German labour market. We find the consequences of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227481
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A Matter of Perspective: How Experience Shapes Preferences for Redistribution
Cassar, Lea; Klein, Arnd H. - 2017
We investigate in a laboratory experiment if the experience of economic failure or success shapes people’s preferences for redistribution beyond self-interest. Subjects generated a high or a low income either through a lottery or through an effort-based tournament. A sub-set of subjects could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615857
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Labor supply and the demand for child care: an intertemporal approach
Minagawa, Junichi; Upmann, Thorsten - 2006
In this paper, we present a model of a one parent one child household where parental decisions on labor supply, leisure, and the demand for private and public child care are simultaneously endogenized and intertemporally determined. We characterize the path of the optimal decisions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263996
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Agency in family policy : a survey
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the welfare or the productivity of the former, it has no option but to act through the latter. Parents are, in the ordinary sense of the word, the government’s agents. They are agents...
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Fertility and Family Labor Supply
Jakobsen, Katrine Marie; Jørgensen, Thomas H.; Low, Hamish - 2022
We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266715
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Fertility and Family Labor Supply
Jakobsen, Katrine Marie; Jørgensen, Thomas; Low, Hamish - 2022
We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083476
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Ethnicity and tax filing behavior
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Miao, Chizheng - 2019
We analyze differences in tax filing behavior between natives and immigrants using population-wide Swedish administrative data, focusing on two empirical examples. First, controlling for a rich set of variables, we compare deduction behavior of immigrants and natives with the same commuting...
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