; wealth distribution ; microsimulation …

rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax … examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax … a large extent be offset by reductions in means-tested welfare transfers and high marginal tax rates. Taking into …

as well as increasing employment rates of recipients of social assistance. On the basis of a behavioral microsimulation … ; labor supply ; social safety system ; microsimulation …

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 …

ineffective. Simulation results show that in this case employer-oriented wage subsidies could compensate higher wage costs and …

We exploit an exhaustive administrative dataset that includes the individual tax returns of all households in the top …. Taking tax base erosion into account, we find that the top percentile of the income distribution pays an effective average … tax rate of 30.5 percent and contributes more than a quarter of total income tax revenue. Within the top percentile, the …

business income to tax authorities, we show that a fall in the tax rate may increase investment in risky entrepreneurial …, including private business equity. In a system of simultaneous demand equations in first differences, we identify the tax … effects by an instrumental variables approach exploiting tax reforms during our observation period. To account for selection …