Microsimulation methods and models of labor market decisions have attracted a lot of attention as an approach to 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 …

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 …