reform. Our analysis employs microsimulation techniques. Furthermore, we estimate behavioral effects of the tax reform using …In the year 2000, the German government passed the most ambitious tax reform in postwar German history aiming at a … significant tax relief for households. Drawing on data of the GSOEP, we analyze the distributional and fiscal effects of the tax …

This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal … taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current … German tax and transfer system for single women optimal. Furthermore, we compare the welfare function conditional on the …

This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal … taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current … German tax and transfer system for single women optimal. Furthermore, we compare the welfare function conditional on the …

The Tax-Transfer-Simulation-Model (STSM) is a microsimulation model used for the empirical analysis of the effects of … of private households, and their budgetary (fiscal) effects in Germany. Besides a detailed depiction of the German tax … et al., 2005; 2008). It takes into account the regulations of the tax and transfer system as of 2012. Chapter 2 …

lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and-transfer system …In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing … insurance effects of taxation may be improved by moving to a progressive tax on lifetime earnings. Similarly, the lifetime …

lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and -transfer system …In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing … insurance effects of taxation may be improved by moving to a progressive tax on lifetime earnings. Similarly, the lifetime …

Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. We study how the tax-and-transfer system o … life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …