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Introducing family tax splitting in Germany : how would it affect the income distribution, work incentives and household welfare?

Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2007 - This version: 05/09/2007

We analyze the effects of three alternative proposals to reform the taxation of families relative to the current German system of joint taxation of couples and child allowances: a French-type family splitting and two full family splitting proposals. The empirical analysis of the effects of these...

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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany

Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015

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...

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Getting poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany

Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015

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Introducing family tax splitting in Germany : how would it affect the income distribution and work incentives?

Steiner, Viktor (contributor); … - 2006

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Has earnings inequality in Germany changed in the 1980's?

Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … 118 (1998) 1, pp. 29-59

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Has earnings inequality in Germany changed in the 1980's?

Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1996

The development of the West German earnings distribution in the 1980's is analysed on the basis of both the German … Socio-Economic Panel and micro-data from the Employment Register of the Federal Labour Office. We find that earnings … inequality in Germany has increased very little in the 1980's, if at all. It is shown ·that the marked increase in earnings …

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The development of wages in Germany in the 1990s - descriptions and explanations

Steiner, Viktor; Hölzle, Thomas - In: The personal distribution of income in an international …, (pp. 7-30). 2000

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Gewinnmargen, Skalenerträge und Unternehmenskonzentration im verarbeitenden Gewerbe der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Steiner, Viktor - In: Strukturtheorie und Strukturforschung : ausgewählte …, (pp. 51-89). 1992

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Behavioral effects of a federal minimum wage and income inequality in Germany : conference paper

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

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 and reduce income inequality. We examine this...

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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We 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...

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