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Getting poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany

Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015

We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...

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The minimum wage affects them all : evidence on employment spillovers in the roofing sector

Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2012

roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment … wage ; Germany ; capital-labour substitution ; labour-labour substitution ; scale effect …

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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …

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When the minimum wage bites back : quantile treatment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in Germany

Gregory, Terry - 2014

conditional and unconditional distribution of earnings. For Eastern Germany, the results indicate significant real (nominal) wage …

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Reforming social welfare as we know it? : a microsimulation study for Germany

Steiner, Viktor; Jacobebbinghaus, Peter - 2003

-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … typically assumed by contributors to recent discussions on the potential labour market effects of welfare reforms in Germany …

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The impact of minimum wages on well-being : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany

Gülal, Filiz; Ayaita, Adam - 2018

To analyze well-being effects of minimum wages, the introduction of a minimum wage in Germany in 2015 is used as a … (East Germany). The results hold if those who are not employed anymore after the reform are included in the analysis. …

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An integrated micro data base for tax analysis in Germany

Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2017

die Steuerlast in Deutschland? - Verteilungswirkungen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems” (Who bears the tax burden … in Germany? – Distributional Analyses of the German tax and transfer system). Financial support from the Hans Böckler …

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