; wealth distribution ; microsimulation …

apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … reductions and a controversial overhaul of the transfer system. The simulations show that tax and transfer reforms have had an …

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 …

and tax policy. In this paper, I provide a test of the income pooling hypothesis using administrative cross …

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 … and full-time work, respectively. We estimate labor supply reactions and welfare effects using a microsimulation model …

.2.Consumption tax cuts and transfers to households primarily stabilize private con-sumption, and subsidies prevent firm defaults …

pricing generates a recession initially as production costs rise. Benefits from lower emissions damage materialize only in the … shorter and long-run benefits are larger if more regions levy a price on emissions. However, for non-participating regions …

modelEMuSeto analyze the effects of financing a labor tax reduction through higher consumption, energy or emissions taxation … taxation as a financing instrument. As demand shifts towards sectors less affected by the tax shift, the aggregate economic …

) to allow for alternatives to welfarism. We calculate weights of a social planner’s function as implied by the German tax …