principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …

paper is to describe the state-of-the-art in simulation and to demonstrate the benefits of linking both model types … modelling flat tax reform proposals for Germany. Taking the general equilibrium effects into account has important implications …

market is characterised by greater flexibility in wages and work arrangements in comparison to Germany. These institutional … Netherlands should be more responsive to economic changes. On the other hand, there is unlikely to be such a divergence in capital … dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …

demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …

France have flatter wealth gradients. …

non-standard work. In Germany (and to a lesser extent Austria), marginal part-time provides a fertile ground for low …-paid service jobs, as non-wage labour costs are minimised. In France, fixed-term contracts are a flexible and also cheaper …

comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant …

separate analyses for the USA, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. We quantify the monopsony power due to search frictions and …, and it allows workers to care about other job characteristics. The empirical analysis focuses on France, but we perform …

?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … – Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …