Projects of the Research Group Inequality and Public Policy

Laufende Projekte

  1. Project // 01.07.2019 – 31.10.2020

    MannheimTaxation – Payroll Taxes, Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurial Activity

    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…

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.06.2022 – 31.01.2023

    Scientific Analyses of Bavarian Family Policies

    The German federal state of Bavaria implemented several family policies in addition to those by the fedral government and the social insurances. This project aims at analyzing the effects of these policies. The…

  2. Project // 01.06.2021 – 30.05.2022

    The German Tax Transfer System in the Household Context

    This project aims to create a thematic website content on the German tax and transfer system.

    Graphical and explanatory information are shedding light on the German tax and transfer system from an economic…

  3. Project // 28.01. – 31.05.2021

    Analyzing the Price Effects of the Temporary VAT Cut

    The project analyzes the price effects of the temporary cut of the German value added tax (VAT) that was enacted in 2020 as part of COVID simulus measures. The analysis is based on detailed scanner data provide…

  4. Project // 01.07.2020 – 30.09.2023

    Regional Inequality in Germany: Assessment, Drivers and Consequences

    The goal of this project is to provide a systematic and methodologically comprehensive analysis of the link between regional inequality and political discontent and increasing populism for the case of Germany. We…

  5. Project // 01.06.2020 – 31.05.2021

    Willingness to Pay for Human Capital Insurance: Evidence from Germany

    The 2001 pension reform in Germany substantially altered the public DI system, by changing the job-related eligibility criterion from “own-occupation” insurance to “any-occupation” insurance as well as reducing…

  6. Project // 01.05. – 31.08.2020

    A stimulus package for the local communities as response to the Corona Crisis

    The goal of this project is to develop an expertise which, based on quantitative and qualitative analyses of the challenges arising from the current Corona-Crisis for German local communities, shall propose…

  7. Project // 01.05.2020 – 31.01.2021

    Distributional Effects of Healthcare Spending

    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…

  8. Project // 15.02. – 10.07.2020

    A new "Garantiesicherung"

    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…