This contribution analyzes the personal income distribution with the actual microdata of the German Income Tax Statistics and focus on top incomes for important labour market groups: the self-employed (as freelancers and entrepreneurs) and employees. New are the first longitudinal results based...

Die Verteilung gesellschaftlicher Ressourcen ist von hoher gesellschafts- wie wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischer Bedeutung. Was allerdings für eine fundierte Auseinandersetzung fehlt, sind zuverlässige Daten vor allem zu den hohen Einkommen. Die vorliegende Studie soll dazu beitragen, die...

With the data of the de facto anonymised Income Tax Statistics 1998 (FAST 98), the German official statistics are for the first time publishing microdata from the field of fiscal statistics. The scientific community can use these data to analyse politically-relevant questions on the fiscal and...

Auf der Grundlage von Vergleichen zwischen dem früheren Steuersystem mit der Steuerreform von 2000/2005 und konkurrierenden Alternativen werden in dieser Studie Verteilungsund Umverteilungseffekte auf die Gruppe der Selbständigen (Freie Berufe und Unternehmer) und anderen sozioökonomischen...

Analysen zur Struktur und der Verteilung eines Phänomens benötigen vor allem Mikrodaten, also Daten der individuell Betroffenen. Wir wollen in unserem vorliegenden Beitrag eine neue mächtige Mikrodatenquelle für Einkommensanalysen vorstellen, die Einkommensteuerstatistik mit anonymisierten...

Intrinsically trustworthy agents never cheat. A society's willingness to trust and the quality of its institutions have their origins in the intrinsic trustworthiness of its citizens. Trustworthiness is the basis for maximizing output in economic exchange and in explaining differences in...

The instrumental variables strategy is commonly employed in empirical research. For correct inference using this econometric technique, the instruments must be perfectly exogenous and relevant. In fact, the standard t-ratio test statistic used in this context yields unreliable and often...

This paper introduces endogenous capital income tax rates as in Schmitt-Grohe and Uribe (1997), into the overlapping generations model with endogenous labor and consumption in both periods of life (e.g., Cazzavillan and Pintus, 2004). In contrast with the previous result that the existence of...

Israel’s policies regarding Lebanon have been dependent on public opinion, which is very volatile. The citizens of Israel did not favor the occupation of the security zone in South Lebanon because of the Four Mothers movement, and it influenced the government to withdraw military forces...

This research attempts a theoretical and quantitative analysis of authoritarian regimes enduring in the developing countries. We attempt computer visualization of the model developed by Acemoglu and Robinson in order to derive an empirical hypothesis easily. There is a reason for us to accept...