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Introducing family tax splitting in Germany : how would it affect the income distribution, work incentives and household welfare?
Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2007 - This version: 05/09/2007
We analyze the effects of three alternative proposals to reform the taxation of families relative to the current German system of joint taxation of couples and child allowances: a French-type family splitting and two full family splitting proposals. The empirical analysis of the effects of these...
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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015
The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517639
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The distributional impact of the pandemic
Hacıoǧlu Hoke, Sinem; Känzig, Diego R.; Surico, Paolo - In: European economic review : EER 134 (2021), pp. 1-19
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The impact of monetary policy on inequality in the UK : an empirical analysis
Mumtaz, Haroon; Theophilopoulou, Angeliki - In: European economic review : EER 98 (2017), pp. 410-423
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Rising wage inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007
Based on samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) 1984 to 2004, this paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany. Between 1984 and 1994 wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent and the wage distribution in West Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628753
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Earnings inequality in Germany : a decomposition-analysis
Stein, Ulrike - 2017
earnings inequality which continued to rise until 2010. We distinguish different groups in the labour market with respect to …. Using the decomposition of the Theil1-index we demonstrate that the increase in earnings inequality is primarily the result … of diverging average earnings of the various groups in the labour market (between-group inequality) and to some extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011791726
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Getting poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305299
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Marital sorting, inequality and the role of female labor supply : evidence from east and west Germany
Pestel, Nico - 2015
This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past … of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual of randomly matched spouses. Hypothetical earnings are predicted … is found after adjusting for labor supply behavior, while the effect is limited when earnings are taken as given. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317821
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Entrepreneurs and Freelancers: are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German Case
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016 - This version: April 2016
Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509118
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly …. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of observed and randomly matched couples are compared to each other …. Earnings of hypothetical couples are adjusted for changes in hours worked given the differences in the household context using …
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