I estimate permanent and transitory tax-price and income elasticity of charitable giving in Germany using a rich panel … data of tax return for the years 2001-2006. Income tax reforms were implemented in 2004 and 2005. The results suggest that … the permanent tax-price elasticity varies significantly by income class, ranging from -0.2 for low incomes to -1.6 for …

benefits. We find that part-time work while receiving unemployment benefits is strongly concentrated in the service and social … implementation of earnings disregards in unemployment benefits and housing allowances, which allowed individuals to earn up to 300 … euros per month without reductions in their benefits. Using variation in the impact of the reforms on incentives between …

spending on the provision of public goods may cause crowding out of private charitable contributions; and (2) tax incentives … may boost private charitable giving. For a rich sample of German income tax returns, we estimate elasticities of … charitable giving regarding tax incentives, income and governmental spending. Using censored quantile regression, we are able to …

on pre-government income inequality hints at substantial disincentive effects. -- social benefits ; redistribution … at the structure of benefits, particularly unemployment benefits and public pensions are responsible for the inequality … reducing impact. More targeted benefits, however, do not significantly reduce income inequality. Rather, their positive effect …

Polish experience and is also consistent with recent work in growth theory which suggests that redistribution that reduces …

apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … reductions and a controversial overhaul of the transfer system. The simulations show that tax and transfer reforms have had an …