The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...

We calculate the expected incidence of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS) using industry and household-level data. By combining data on direct CO2 emissions by production sector from the German Environmental Account with the German Input-Output Accounts, we calculate the CO2...

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...

Im Beitrag werden differenzierte Strukturen der Zuzüge und Fortzüge in bzw. aus dem BRD-Bundesgebiet im Zeitraum 1984-1989/90 aufgezeigt, wie sie sich seit der verstärkten Zuwanderung von Deutschen ergeben haben. (PHF/Ko.)