examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax … rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced …

examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax … rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced …

Empirical studies on minimum wages are primarily concerned with employment while their effects on income inequality … receive less attention. Yet, a popular argument for a federal minimum wage in Germany is that it will prevent in-work poverty … microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax-benefit system and net incomes at the household level …

examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax … rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced …

Socio-Economic Panel and micro-data from the Employment Register of the Federal Labour Office. We find that earnings … inequality in Germany has increased very little in the 1980's, if at all. It is shown ·that the marked increase in earnings …

in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security … whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within …