In dieser Studie werden umfassende mikrodatenbasierte Analysen zur gesamten Verteilungswirkung des deutschen Steuersystems durchgeführt. Einbezogen werden die Einkommensteuer einschließlich der Unternehmensteuern auf ausgeschüttete Gewinne, die indirekten Steuern und die Sozialbeiträge....

This paper investigates the impact of tax simplification on various indicators of the efficiency of the tax system and on the distribution of income. The analysis is based on a simulation model (FiFoSiM) using German income tax and household survey microdata. We model tax simplification as the...

Although discrete hours choice models have become the workhorse in labor supply analyses. Yet, they are often criticized for being a black box due to their numerous underlying modeling assumptions, with respect to, e.g., the functional form, unobserved error components or several exogeneity...