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Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? : a microsimulation study for Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726086

Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition : the German experience

Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008

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 propensity score matching with a discrete-time hazard...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726098

"Marginal employment": stepping stone or dead end? : evaluating the German experience

Freier, Ronny (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007

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Beschäftigungsförderung und Einkommenssicherung im Niedriglohnbereich : Wege und Irrwege

Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003618503

Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962265

A wealth tax on the rich to bring down public debt? : Revenue and distributional effects of a capital levy

Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2011

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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Financial leverage and corporate taxation : evidence from German corporate tax return data

Dwenger, Nadja; Steiner, Viktor - 2009

We estimate the impact of effective profit taxation on the financial leverage of corporations on the basis of a pseudo-panel constructed from corporate tax return micro data for the period 1998-2001, a period which saw the introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany. The financial...

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Labor market effects of the German tax reform 2000

Haan, Peter (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2005

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. An important aim of this tax reform was to improve work incentives and, thereby, foster employment. Drawing on data of the German Socio...

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Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland : Bestandsaufnahme und Bewertung der mikroökonomischen Evaluationsergebnisse

Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2005

Förderung von Beschäftigung. Die quantitativ wichtigsten Programme der AAMP in Deutschland waren traditionell die Förderung der … Deutschland bewertet. Die Darstellung wird ergänzt durch die Einbeziehung der Ergebnisse einiger internationaler … Evaluationsstudien zu Instrumenten der AAMP, die zunehmend auch in Deutschland Bedeutung erlangen, für die aber hierzulande derzeit noch …

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Distributional and fiscal effects of the German tax reform 2000 : a behavioral microsimulation analysis

Haan, Peter (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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