article describes which data sources are used for the simulation, how key features of the German tax and transfer system are …This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic … Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating …

robot tax that has featured prominently in the policy debate on automation and show that it could raise the capital stock … and per capita output at the steady state. However, the robot tax cannot induce a takeoff toward positive long-run growth. …

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

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation … literature is to allocate this expenditure proportionally to post-tax cash income. We show that the gap in post-tax income shares …

Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. We study how the tax-and-transfer system o … life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …

Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax … lifetime tax reform linking annual taxes to previous employment could improve the system's insurance capabilities, albeit at …