article describes which data sources are used for the simulation, how key features of the German tax and transfer system are …This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic … Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating …

comparative) impact of mobility and of the tax system (another presumed income equalizer) on the dynamics of income across time … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada's tax system limits …, often amounting to around 30 percent of mean income. For all choices of parameter values, the tax effect exceeds by far the …

components using yearly UK data covering 1977-2018. We examine cash and in-kind benefits, and direct and indirect taxes. In … benefits are largely associated with cyclical changes in average benefit rates. In contrast, trends in the redistributive … effects of direct and indirect taxes are mostly associated with changes in progressivity. For in-kind benefits, changes in the …

We use a behavioural microsimulation model embedded in a numerical optimization procedure in order to identify optimal … (social welfare maximizing) tax-transfer rules. We consider the class of tax-transfer rules consisting of a universal basic … income and a tax defined by a 4th degree polynomial. The rule is applied to total taxable household income. A …

give specific attention to the choice of the bandwidth used to define "close equals" in terms of pre-tax income. We also …

for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … part in the European Social Survey shortly before and after the event. We find that the tax day increases perceptions that … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception …

I estimate permanent and transitory tax-price and income elasticity of charitable giving in Germany using a rich panel … data of tax return for the years 2001-2006. Income tax reforms were implemented in 2004 and 2005. The results suggest that … the permanent tax-price elasticity varies significantly by income class, ranging from -0.2 for low incomes to -1.6 for …

This paper studies optimal unemployment benefit levels and optimal proportional income tax rates over the business … because the UI system can be used to smooth consumption across different economic states. However, high benefits increase … unemployment. An alternative way to redistribute income is to vary tax rates over the business cycle. In this paper, we develop an …

agents' biased perceptions with this information has a significant effect on their stated preferences for redistribution … levels of redistribution when informed of their true ranking. This relationship between biased perceptions and political … attitudes provides an alternative explanation for the relatively low degree of redistribution observed in modern democracies …