In dieser Studie werden umfassende mikrodatenbasierte Analysen zur gesamten Verteilungswirkung des deutschen Steuersystems durchgeführt. Einbezogen werden die Einkommensteuer einschließlich der Unternehmensteuern auf ausgeschüttete Gewinne, die indirekten Steuern und die Sozialbeiträge....

Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...

This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...