basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax … consumption. Simulation results show that the minimum wage would be rather ineffective in raising net household incomes and …

-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced microdata from the German pension insurance. A microsimulation model is developed …

as well as increasing employment rates of recipients of social assistance. On the basis of a behavioral microsimulation …

apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … reductions and a controversial overhaul of the transfer system. The simulations show that tax and transfer reforms have had an …

In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last … three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This … relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …