In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and … especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a …

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system. The aim of … this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany with its typical Conservative welfare state regime. For … to implement the financing systems of other European countries in Germany (policy swap). The introduction of a Liberal …

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and … especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a …

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and … especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a …

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and … especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …

effects, however, are quite small. Although we have derived our results for the case of Germany, we do think that similar …