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Bracket creep revisited - with and without r>g : evidence from Germany
Zhu, Junyi - 2015
under various inflation scenarios. We develop a tax micro-simulation model for the newly available Panel on Household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381623
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Rates of return and early retirement disincentives : evidence from a German pension reform
Lüthen, Holger - 2014
To counteract the financial pressure emerging in aging societies, statutory pay-as-you-go pension schemes are undergoing fundamental reforms in many Western countries. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010362934
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The state and income inequality in Brazil
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015
Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance transfers. The income flows to the State comprise direct taxes … pensions - are very concentrated and regressive. Factors related to the private sector are still concentrated, but progressive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056561
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The rising longevity gap by lifetime earnings : distributional implications for the pension system
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Lüthen, Holger - 2017
This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence about the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011740362
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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
We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across …-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced microdata from the German pension insurance. A microsimulation model is developed … pensions across cohorts taking into account changing demographics and recent pension reforms. Simulations show that pension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962861
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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234179
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ZEW-EviSTA : a microsimulation model of the German tax and transfer system
Buhlmann, Florian; Hebsaker, Michael; Kreuz, Tobias; … - 2022 - First version: June 2022
This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013281463
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The Effects of the Size of the Public Sector on Fertility
Puhakka, Mikko; Viren, Matti - 2006
We construct a simple exchange economy overlapping generations model in which there are along with a public social security various private insurance schemes to explore fertility and the effects of various variables on it. In the private system parents can invest in children and benefit from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012502962
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Pension shocks and wages
Adrjan, Pawel; Bell, Brian - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882039
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Accounting for the role of tax-benefit changes in shaping income inequality: A new method, with application to income inequality in Finland
Ollonqvist, Joonas - 2021
inequality. This method is a combination of microsimulation based decomposition (Bar gain and Callan, 2010) and a multivariate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433374