Die Bundesregierung will im Rahmen der Reform der Unternehmensbesteuerung Kapitalgesellschaften deutlich entlasten. Personengesellschaften und Einzelunternehmen sollen optieren können und dann wie Kapitalgesellschaften behandelt werden; andernfalls erfahren sie eine Entlastung durch die...

This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year. We apply an exact decomposition framework as outlined in Wodon and Yitzhaki (Econ Bull 4:1–8, 2003), and in Yitzhaki and Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199,...

The premium rates paid for statutory health insurance in Germany play a key role in the competition among health care funds. With the most recent health care reform (GKV-Wettbewerbsstärkungsgesetz GKV-WSG), a range of new products have been introduced that could erode the advantageous selling...

In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, wie groß die fiskalische Belastung eines Umstiegs vom bestehenden Umlageverfahren in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) zu einer Variante eines kapitalgedeckten Systems mit altersabhängigem Kopfbeitrag wäre. Mit Hilfe eines statischen...

This paper investigates and compares the relationship between obesity and earnings in the U.S. and Germany. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (U.S.) and the German Socio-Economic Panel, instrumental variables models are estimated that account for the endogeneity of body weight....

Raising children demands a considerable amount of parental time, obliging working parents either to reduce their leisure time further or to buy childcare services in the market. Parents may face additional opportunity costs upon deciding to participate in the labor market, but these are...