Trotz der Steuersenkungen zum Jahresbeginn 2004 und zum Jahresbeginn 2005 gibt es zahlreiche Vorschläge zur Reform der Einkommensteuer. Sie zielen darauf ab, die Steuersätze deutlich zu verringern und die Steuervergünstigungen zu reduzieren oder gar abzuschaffen und letztlich das Steuerrecht...

The paper presents data on the taxation of business income in the Federal Republic of Germany in the nineties. The government's plan to reform the System of taxing corporate and personal income is portrayed and assessed. It turns out that the reform proposal has numerous disadvantages; it is...

I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004) prediction that individuals' reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference incomeis not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) as well as data from the German...