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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...
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In order to calculate the burden of a comprehensive and progressive income tax falling on a certain income source, an … apportionment scheme for the entire tax burden has to be chosen. This raises the question of how to deal with losses, which is … relevant for Germany in view of the heavy losses from renting. Using micro data from tax statistics we analyze the income tax …
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Taxation changes the expectations of prospective university students about their future level and uncertainty of after-tax … enrollment decision, accounting for multiple nonrandom selection and employing a microsimulation model to account for taxation … uncertainty among academics decreases enrollment rates. A simulation based on the estimated structural model indicates that a …
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reform. Our analysis employs microsimulation techniques. Furthermore, we estimate behavioral effects of the tax reform using …In the year 2000, the German government passed the most ambitious tax reform in postwar German history aiming at a … significant tax relief for households. Drawing on data of the GSOEP, we analyze the distributional and fiscal effects of the tax …
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This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles forprime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...
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an integrated data set of individual tax returns and the German Socio-Economic Panel. The unique feature of this …
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This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large sample of earning biographies from social security records, we show that the intra-generational distribution of lifetime earnings of male workers has a Gini coefficient around...
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The local business tax as the main revenue source of local governments in Germany has been under extensive debate for … decades. Proposals for reform range from a broad tax base in the sense of an origin-based value-added tax to a pure profit tax … that could be implemented as a surcharge on corporation and personal income tax. Local business taxation systems in OECD …
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basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax … consumption. Simulation results show that the minimum wage would be rather ineffective in raising net household incomes and …
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-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced microdata from the German pension insurance. A microsimulation model is developed …
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