Discussion Papers in Statistics and Econometrics Seminar of Economic and Social Statistics University of Cologne
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Income redistribution in Germany is the result of combination of several redistribution instruments: There is a complex income tax law, different obligatory social insurances and supplementary benefits. This note estimates the income redistribution by quantile regression, using German EVS data. Two results are obtained: Income after redistribution is not everywhere increasing in income before redistribution, i.e. for people with low income before redistribution it does not make sense to increase their efforts, since more work means less earnings. Further, an increasing redistribution rate for higher incomes is not always observable from the data.
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