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The impact of short- and long-term participation tax rates on labor supply
Bartels, Charlotte; Pestel, Nico - 2015
. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take … incentives at the extensive margin measured by the Participation Tax Rate (PTR), particularly for low-income individuals. Work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295803
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Redistribution and insurance in the German welfare state
Bartels, Charlotte - 2011
Welfare states redistribute both between individuals (inter-individual redistribution) reducing annual, cross …-sectional inequality and over the lifecycle of an individual (intra-individual redistribution) insuring individuals against income risks in … the long-term. But studies measuring redistribution often focus on a one-year period and the second aspect is neglected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009405105
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German male income volatility 1984 to 2008
Bartels, Charlotte; Bönke, Timm - 2010
Deploying data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) we analyze the variability of individual earnings and equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old German Laender in order to determine their importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664565
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Long-term participation tax rates
Bartels, Charlotte - 2012
annual income concepts. This paper analyzes how work incentives inherent in the German tax-benefit system evolve when … extending the time horizon to three years (long-term). Participation tax rates are computed for 3-year periods 1995-1997 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630295