examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax … rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced …

examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax … rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced …

Empirical studies on minimum wages are primarily concerned with employment while their effects on income inequality … receive less attention. Yet, a popular argument for a federal minimum wage in Germany is that it will prevent in-work poverty … microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax-benefit system and net incomes at the household level …

in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security … whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within …

in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue …This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un)employment and wage effects of social security … whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within …

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the … basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax …-benefit system and net household incomes, also taking into account potential employment effects as well as indirect effects on …