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The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...
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on a behavioral micro-simulation model which integrates an empirical household labor supply model into a detailed tax …-benefit model based on the German Socio Economic Panel. Our simulation results show that, under each reform, the lion's share of the … supply effects are small for all analyzed family tax splitting reforms, both in absolute terms and relative to the implied …
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the ongoing policy debate in Germany. In this paper, we compare the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax … additionally consider social insurance contributions and cash benefits for a complete analysis of the whole tax benefit system. Our … analysis is based on EUROMOD, a static tax benefit microsimulation model for the EU-15 countries, which allows analysing the …
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Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...
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social policy reforms in 2005. The analysis is based on a microsimulation model, which includes a detailed description of the …
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. 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 …
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apply a dynamic simulation model with overlapping generations where single and married agents have to decide on labor supply …
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model of occupational choice, higher expected after-tax earnings attract people to self-employment, while more risky net … German income tax reduction of 2000 induced smaller exit rates out of self-employment for men and smaller entry rates for …
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an integrated data set of individual tax returns and the German Socio-Economic Panel. The unique feature of this …
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Based on a representative data set of more than 36 000 original tax report extracts, we develop a microsimulation model … that calculates the fiscal impact of changes in the area of tax deductible work-related expenses, in particular expenses … fiscal impact of changes in the German income tax law than previously possible and thus facilitates an informed evaluation of …
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