hypotheses, we use household survey panel data for Germany eliciting the personal wealth composition in detail in 2002, 2007, and …

corporate tax reform in Germany. The financial leverage is measured by the ratio of long-term debt to total capital. Endogeneity …

introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany. Endogeneity of the effective tax rate is controlled for by an instrumental …

and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing … an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … individual wages, the tax-benefit system and net household incomes. Simulation results show that the minimum wage would be rather …

We analyze the taxation of top personal incomes in Germany on the basis of an integrated data file of individual tax …

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 for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax …-benefit system and net household incomes, also taking into account potential employment effects as well as indirect effects on …

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …

-section data for Germany, this paper analyzes the retirement consumption puzzle for the German case. For our broadest consumption …