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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts : a microsimulation analysis for Germany

Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …

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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 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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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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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations

Steiner, Viktor - 1996

whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue …

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Relative earnings and the demand for unskilled labor in West German manufacturing

Steiner, Viktor - 1997

We analyze the economic factors which have contributed to the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in German manufacturing, in particular the role played by the relatively rigid earnings structure. Potential effects of intensified international competition and skillbiased...

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