As a response to a changing labour market scenario and to the concerns for increasing costs and bad incentives of traditional income support policies, the last decades have witnessed, in many countries, reforms introducing more sophisticated designs of means-testing, eligibility and tagging. In...

We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes...

Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the one hand, higher progressivity distorts individual labour supply decisions at the hours-of-work margin, on the other hand, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure...

Im Rahmen von Mitarbeiterbeteiligungen bieten Genussrechte und stille Beteiligungen eine verbreitete Möglichkeit, die Vorteile aus Eigen- und Fremdfinanzierung miteinander zu kombinieren. Aus steuerlicher und finanzwirtschaftlicher Sicht stellt sich die Frage, unter welchen Bedingungen diese...