Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardesthit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...

The distributional consequences of the recent economic crisis are still broadly unknown. While it is possible to speculate which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking due to a lack of real-time microdata. This paper studies the...

Die in Aussicht gestellten Steuererleichterungen sind das beherrschende Thema der ersten Wochen nach Amtsantritt der neuen Bundesregierung. Die vorliegende Studie enthält eine Simulation der mutmaßlichen Effekte einer Umsetzung des von der FDP vorgeschlagenen Stufentarifs und Bürgergelds auf...

Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardesthit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...

Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...

The distributional consequences of the recent economic crisis are still broadly unknown. While it is possible to speculate which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking due to a lack of real-time microdata. This paper studies the...

Die in Aussicht gestellten Steuererleichterungen sind das beherrschende Thema der ersten Wochen nach Amtsantritt der neuen Bundesregierung. Die vorliegende Studie enthält eine Simulation der mutmaßlichen Effekte einer Umsetzung des von der FDP vorgeschlagenen Stufentarifs und Bürgergelds auf...

The distributional consequences of the recent economic crisis are still broadly unknown. While it is possible to speculate which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking due to a lack of real-time microdata. This paper studies the...