In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...

[Problemstellung und Erkenntnisinteresse ...] Die folgende Wirkungsanalyse gliedert sich in zwei Teile. Im ersten Teil werden die makroöko-nomischen und finanzpolitischen Auswirkungen der Maßnahmen des DARPs quantifiziert. Hierzu werden die ökonomischen Effekte der Maßnahmen nach Einordnung...

[Einleitung ...] In diesem Gutachten geben wir zunächst einen kurzen Überblick zu den wichtigsten Parametern der Garantierente. In Abschnitt 3 erläutern wir das methodische Vorgehen und stellen die Da-tengrundlage des Berichts vor. Abschnitt 4 beschäftigt sich mit dem verwendeten...

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.5 per hour on the basis of a...