Publications of the Research Group Inequality and Public Policy

The Great Recession and the resulting European debt crisis revived a debate about deeper fiscal integration in the Eurozone. We discuss different alternatives how an unemployment insurance system for the euro…

The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is often interpreted as a sufficient statistic to assess the welfare costs of taxation. Building on the conceptual framework of Chetty (2009), we show that this assertion…

Despite their theoretical benefits, flat taxes have been tried only in a few formerly socialist countries

Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a…

We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a number of key family policy measures based on data for Germany. Parental leave benefits,…

• Some Government Redistribution Measures Shown to Reduce Income Inequality
• Deployment of Fibre Optic Networks: Making Public Subsidies more Efficient
• Households Insured Against Flooding Take more Precautionary…

There is still considerable dispute about the magnitude of labor supply elasticities. While differences in micro and macro estimates are recently attributed to frictions and adjustment costs, we show that…