The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...

Seit langem werden Reformen des Ehegattensplittings bei der Einkommensteuerdiskutiert, zuletzt während der Koalitionsverhandlungen im Oktober 2002. Das DIW Berlin hat die Aufkommens- und Belastungswirkungen des gegenwärtigen Splittingverfahrens und von alternativen Formen der...

Am 1. April 1999 trat die erste Stufe der ökologischen Steuerreform in Kraft. Für die kurz zuvor ins Amt gekommene rot-grüne Bundesregierung war dieses Reformprojekt von großer programmatischer Bedeutung und politischer Brisanz. Die Grundidee: Umweltpolitische Lenkungsimpulse sollten mit...

This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in spe­cific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exception­ally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we ex­ploit that German...

We estimate short, medium, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a ten-year period. Since analyzing the effectiveness of training over such a long period is impossible with experimental data, we...

Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three most important German welfare-to-work programmes implemented after a major reform in January 2005...