We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...

We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...

We quantify the importance of precautionary labor supply using data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) for 2001-2012. We estimate dynamic labor supply equations augmented with a measure of wage risk. Our results show that married men choose about 2.5% of their hours of work or one week...

We quantify the importance of precautionary labor supply using data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) for 2001-2012. We estimate dynamic labor supply equations augmented with a measure of wage risk. Our results show that married men choose about 2.5% of their hours of work or one week...

Die deutsche Konjunktur hat im Verlauf des Jahres 2018 an Schwung verloren. Die ohnehin nachlassende Grundtendenz wurde im zweiten Halbjahr durch Probleme in der Automobilindustrie bei der Einführung des Abgas- und Ver- brauchstest WLTP akzentuiert. Der davon au sgehende dämpfende Einfluss auf...

Using information on desired and actual hours of work, we formulate a discrete choice model of constrained labor supply. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the microsimulation model STSM, we find that hours and participation elasticities are substantially smaller than those in the...

Die deutsche Konjunktur hat sich im zweiten Halbjahr 2018 deutlich abgeschwächt. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP) stagnierte mehr oder weniger. Eine wesentliche Rolle dabei spielten hier jedoch Sonderentwicklungen in der Automobilindustrie und in der Chemischen Industrie. Allerdings...

Nach einem schwachen zweiten Halbjahr 2018 expandierte das BIP im ersten Quartal dieses Jahres wieder kräftiger. Allerdings lassen vorlaufende Indikatoren wie die Erwartungen der Unternehmen und die Auftragseingänge rückläufige Zuwachsraten für die verbleibenden Quartals dieses...

Using information on desired and actual hours of work, we formulate a discrete choice model of constrained labor supply, where involuntary unemployment as well as over- and underemployment are modelled in a theoretically consistent way. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and...

A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...