This paper examines efforts to make work pay, concentrating on U.S. American and German policies and experiments. We are specifically interested in fleshing out the relevance of U.S. American models for a German context as well as the special characteristics of the German situation which do not...

In dem Band diskutieren die Autoren normative Begründungen für staatliche Umverteilungsmaßnahmen und für die Existenz einer verpflichtenden Sozialversicherung. Dabei werden Gerechtigkeits- und vor allem Effizienzkriterien zugrunde gelegt. Sie analysieren die einzelnen Elemente des sozialen...

We derive a sufficient statistics optimal tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and endogenous wages, to study the shape of the tax and transfer system at the bottom of the distribution. The sufficient statistics are the macro employment response to taxation and the micro...