Publications of the Research Group Inequality and Public Policy

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-014 // 2014

    Circumstantial Risk: Impact of Future Tax Evasion and Labor Supply Opportunities on Risk Exposure

    This paper examines whether risk-taking in a lottery depends on the opportunity to respond to the lottery outcome through additional labor effort and/or tax evasion. Previous empirical attempts to answer this…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-013 // 2014

    Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-level Evidence from Germany

    It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-012 // 2014

    The Impact of Redistributive Policies on Inequality in OECD Countries

    Due to behavioral effects triggered by redistributional interventions, it is still an open question whether government policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research…

  4. Discussion and Working Paper // 2014

    Is soccer good for you? The motivational impact of big sporting events on the unemployed

    We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984 - 2010. Exploiting the random…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-002 // 2014

    Fair and Efficient Taxation Under Partial Control

    We study fair and effcient tax-benefit schemes based on income and non-income factors under partial control. Partial control means that each factor is a specific mixture of unobserved ability (randomly drawn by…