I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

contributions (SSC). Based on a dual data base and a microsimulation model of household labor supply behavior, we find a regressive … persists for PIT reductions, while the overall effects on inequality and progressivity become lower when payroll taxes are …

compensated by a revenue-neutral reduction in income-related taxes. Based on a dual data base and a microsimulation model of labor … on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

compensated by a revenue-neutral reduction in income-related taxes. Based on a dual data base and a microsimulation model of labor … on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

Earnings Survey (GSES), a variance decomposition of earnings inequality reveals that hours inequality and the covariance …This paper studies the relationship between inequalities in working hours and overall earnings inequality in Germany … between wages and hours become more important over time in determining earnings inequality. Based on unconditional quantile …

-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …

individual working-biographies. This discussion paper portrays the instrument of this projection, a microsimulation model for the … year 1996 in Germany (AVID-PRO). For the purpose of this microsimulation model we first raised longitudinal section and … for the continuation of suitable models. In the centre of the microsimulation based projection we have three sub …

This paper studies the impact of the Protestant Reformation on wealth distribution and inequality in confessionally … insiders only. This gave Protestantism an ambiguous character in terms of redistribution and its impact on inequality. I … framework, I document that the Reformation exacerbated inequality overall, by making marginal poor people relatively poorer. The …