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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316360
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Mobility of top incomes in Germany
Jenderny, Katharina - 2013
Mobility of top incomes matters for both the openness of the income elite and the share of total income that this group receives. It is thus an important complement information to the growing snapshot literature on top income concentration. I use microlevel panel data of German income tax files...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752140
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Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? Evidence from Finland's tax day
Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023
inequality through a real-world policy, rather than experimental treatments, may trigger only marginal changes in support for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551561
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Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? : evidence from Finland's tax day
Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023
inequality through a real-world policy, rather than experimental treatments, may trigger only marginal changes in support for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229860
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Horizontal equity in the German tax-benefit system : a simulation approach for employees
Bönke, Timm; Eichfelder, Sebastian - 2010
We analyze the distributive justice of the combined burden of taxes, social security contributions and public transfers on employee households. In order to investigate whether the treatment of families by the aggregate tax-benefit system can be regarded as "fair" we compare the equivalent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962820
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312821
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Bracket creep revisited - with and without r>g : evidence from Germany
Zhu, Junyi - 2015
solely to Germany. Additionally, when we introduce the empirical evidence that capital income grows faster than non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381623
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009236841
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Income tax noncompliance in Germany, 2001-2014
Fauser, Hannes; Godar, Sarah - 2021
This paper estimates income tax underreporting for the case of Germany, by income category and along the income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697780
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Redistribution and insurance in the German welfare state
Bartels, Charlotte - 2011
-sectional inequality and over the lifecycle of an individual (intra-individual redistribution) insuring individuals against income risks in …. To quantify both inter- and intra-individual redistribution in Germany this study uses SOEP data from 1984 to 2009 to … construct long-term incomes over a 20-year period. Results show that annual, cross-sectional inequality is higher than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009405105