entitlements and sheds light on determinants of this behavior. Against the background that educational mobility in Germany is low … claims for student aid at all. To investigate non-take-up, we set up a microsimulation model for the German Socio … former socialist East Germany choose to take up student aid than similar West German students. Finally, in line with …

We present first estimates of rates of non-take-up for social assistance in Germany after the implementation of major … social policy reforms in 2005. The analysis is based on a microsimulation model, which includes a detailed description of the …

When comparing tax benefit systems across Europe, Germany is usually regarded as a country with a high level of taxes … the ongoing policy debate in Germany. In this paper, we compare the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax … analysis is based on EUROMOD, a static tax benefit microsimulation model for the EU-15 countries, which allows analysing the …

Microsimulation (MS) and Computable General Equilibrium models (CGE) have both been widely used in policy analysis …-of-the-art in simulation analysis and to illustrate the benefits and problems of linking micro and macro models by analysing flat … tax reform proposals for Germany. Taking feedback effects into account has important implications for the evaluation of …

apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax …

-take-up behaviour of Social Assistance (SA) inGermany. According to our simulation as much as 67 percent of the eligible population did … measurement error in estimating non-take-up. First, we consider misspecifications of the simulation model due, e.g., to households …

and full-time work, respectively. We estimate labor supply reactions and welfare effects using a microsimulation model …

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced microdata from the German pension insurance. A microsimulation model is developed … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …

examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax … rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …