Showing 1 - 10 of 962
This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600978
This paper studies optimal linear income taxation and redistributive social insurance when the former has the traditional labor distortion and the latter generates both ex ante and ex post moral hazard. Private insurance is available and individuals differ in labor productivity and in loss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940629
We analyze underreported earnings and age-specific income redistribution in postsocialist economies. Pensions, other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494416
Im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl 2013 findet in Deutschland eine intensive Debatte über die Umverteilungswirkung der Einkommensteuer statt. Insbesondere mit der Senkung des Spitzensteuersatzes auf zwischenzeitlich 42 und nun 45 Prozent wird eine überproportionale Bevorzugung hoher Einkommen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310886
addresses these questions focusing on the case of Chile. Although Chile is considered one of the countries with highest state … limited redistribution and a regressive tax structure, showing little ability to tackle economic inequality. Based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654256
, we analyse the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax benefit system in the EU-15 countries. We show that … the German system as a whole employs only a medium level of redistribution. However, this can be decomposed into a highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297029
Socially responsible investment in analyzed in a general equilibrium context. This is important in order to understand the ultimate consequences of SRI on the decisions of economic agents. Building on models by Brock (1982) and Merton (1987), SRI is modelled as the choice to voluntarily give up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325126
, thereby taking the edge off discontent. Citizens with higher incomes who tend to be less supportive of redistribution in the … first place may be further convinced that inequality is not a major issue and redistribution need not be a policy goal. All … negative association between credit use and public support for redistribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417850
Auf Grundlage von Sterbetafeln und den Vorausschätzungen für die Bevölkerungsentwicklung werden für Männer und Frauen rentenäquvivalente Versicherungsprämien berechnet. Der Vergleich mit den vorgesehenen Umlagebeträgen der gRV führt zu der Frage, ob die Zumutbarkeitsschwelle für...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331106
Deutschland wird im europäischen Vergleich häufig ein überdurchschnittlich progressives Steuersystem attestiert. Die einzigartige, mehrstufige Progressionsformel der Einkommensteuer trägt ohne Zweifel zu dieser Sichtweise bei. Um ein umfassendes Bild der Progressivität eines Gesamtsystems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331466