Public spending on healthcare makes up a substantial part of government expenditure in developed countries. Even though the gradient between income and measures of health is well known most studies on inequality…
This study for the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen utilizes the ZEW-Mikrosimulation-Model and houshold survey-data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) to evaluate a proposed…
The objective of this research project – which is financed by the Leibniz-ScienceCampus MannheimTaxation – is to study the causal effect of unemployment insurance benefit levels on the probability to become…
The objective of this research project is to study the causal effect of potential unemployment insurance benefit duration on the actual unemployment duration of unemployed individuals that start a business, their…
As part of the 6th report on poverty and wealth of the German federal government this project analyzes the distributional aspects of the provision of public services. Three closely integrated modules focus on…
There is a general consensus among both policy-makers and the general public that tax systems in induztrialized countries are too complicated and that it is generally desirable to have simpler tax systems. This…
The challenges accompanying demographic change have led many European economies to fundamentally reform their retirement systems by increasingly moving…
Compared to other industrialized countries maternal labor supply in Germany is low, i.e. in terms of participation and because a large share of mothers is working parttime.An important determinant of maternal…