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Why has income inequality in Germany increased from 2002 to 2011? : a behavioral microsimulation decomposition

Jessen, Robin - 2016

apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … reductions and a controversial overhaul of the transfer system. The simulations show that tax and transfer reforms have had an …

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Work incentives and the cost of redistribution via tax-transfer reforms under constrained labor supply

Fischer, Benjamin; Jessen, Robin; Steiner, Viktor - 2019

. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the microsimulation model STSM, we find that hours and participation elasticities … the working poor. The first reform is financed through an increase in the effective marginal tax rate for welfare …

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A life cycle labour supply model with taxes estimated on German panel data : the case of parallel preferences

Laisney, François; Lechner, Michael; Soest, Arthur van; … - 1993

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A life cycle labour supply model with taxes estimated on German panel data : the case of parallel preferences

Laisney, François; Lechner, Michael; Soest, Arthur van; … - 1993

We estimate Frisch labour supply functions for married women using information on desired hours, under the assumptions that these are based on a smooth convex approximation of the budget constraint. The minimum distance approach used allows for correlated random effects both in the wage and in...

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