Die drastische Erhöhung der Freigrenze soll nach dem Willen der Bundesregierung 90 % der Zahler des Solidaritätszuschlags entlasten. Sie führt zudem dazu, dass die getrennte zu einer geringeren Steuerlast führen kann als die gemeinsame Veranlagung von Ehegatten, was einen starken fi...

We study the role of heterogeneous preferences at the spousal level and that of spousal mutual insurance against wage shocks for couples’ labor supply in a time-use model. We estimate the model for couples in the German Time-Use Survey with Bayesian techniques and generate gender-specific...

This paper studies the impact of tax incentives on economic behavior within the household. We focus on an Italian tax policy that grants a large tax credit to main earners if their spouses, designated as “dependent spouses” by the tax law, report income below a certain threshold. Combining a...