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

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …

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Distributional effects of the European Emissions Trading System and the role of revenue recycling : empirical evidence from combined industry- and household-level data

Cludius, Johanna; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2012

We calculate the expected distributional effects of the European Emissions Trading System combining industry and household-level data. By combining data on direct CO2 emissions by production sector from the German Environmental Account with the German Input-Output Accounts, we calculate the CO2...

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Does consumption decline at retirement? : evidence from repeated cross-section data for Germany

Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2012

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

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Effective taxation of top incomes in Germany

Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - 2011

percentile of the income distribution in Germany to pin down the effective income taxation of households with very high incomes … in Germany. -- Personal Income Tax ; Taxing the Rich ; Effective Progressivity …

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The pattern of home ownership across cohorts and its impact on the net wealth distribution : empirical evidence from Germany and the US

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur; Schmidt, Tobias - 2015

over cohorts on the distribution of net wealth we impose the homeownership pattern of the US on Germany and ask: What would … the net wealth distribution in Germany look like if German households were distributed across tenure status along cohorts … to the wealth distribution. Imposing the structure of the US on Germany leads to a large increase in the German median …

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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany

Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015

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 means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...

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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records

Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015

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 for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...

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Labour market transitions and the persistence of unemployment - West Germany 1983 - 1992

Steiner, Viktor - 1994

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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …

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Charitable giving and its persistent and transitory reactions to changes in tax incentives : evidence from the German taxpayer panel

Bönke, Timm; Werdt, Clive - 2015

We estimate the elasticity of charitable giving with respect to price and income changes using a rich panel of income tax returns covering the period 2001 to 2006. Employing censored quantile regression and exploiting the panel structure, the advantage of our analysis is twofold: First, we...

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