Publikationen der Forschungsgruppe Ungleichheit und Verteilungspolitik

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 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…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 14-001 // 2014

    Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979 – 2007

    We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to disentangle the policy effect from changing market incomes. Over the period 1979-2007, the…