Viktor Steiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 6703656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Viktor Steiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Viktor |
| FAMILY NAME | Steiner |
| SIGNATURE | STEINER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | German Institute for Economic Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Getting the Poor to Work
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income equal to the current level of the means-tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative reforms that involve employment subsidies to stimulate participation and full-time work, respectively. We estimate labor supply reactions and welfare effects using …
Der ökonomische Angleichungsprozess in Ostdeutschland
In diesem Beitrag werden Stand und Perspektiven des ökonomischen Angleichungsprozesses in Ostdeutschland dargestellt und bewertet. Dazu werden zunächst die Anpassungsprozesse am Arbeitsmarkt und die Einkommensentwicklung seit der Wiedervereinigung beschrieben. Anschließend werden Forschungsergebnisse zur zukünftigen Entwicklung der Erwerbsbiografien jüngerer Geburtskohorten und deren Alterseinkünfte aus der Gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung präsent…
The Flip Side of the Coin
The Ageing Working Group (AWG) assesses the long-term sustainability of public finances by presenting a set of public expenditure projections for all Member States, including projections on pensions. These projections are based on demographic forecasts and agreed assumptions on key economic variables. The adequacy and sustainability of pensions are, however, two sides of the same coin and a full assessment of pensions therefore requires integrati…
Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed --Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) an employment bonus in the form of subsidized social security contributions on low wages. The work-incentive, labor-supply, and welfare effects of these policy reforms are analyzed on the basis of a behavioral microsimulation model for Germany. We find that the simulated labor-supply effects of the three policy refor…
Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany
We analyze the effects of three different proposals to introduce a family tax-splitting system in Germany. The empirical analysis is based on a behavioral microsimulation model, which integrates an empirical household labor-supply model into a detailed tax-benefit model. Our results show that, under each reform, the lion's share of the reduction in taxes would accrue to families in the upper part of the income distribution, and that labor-supply …
Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending
We consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods: one that benefits mobile skilled workers and one that benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different spending categories. We then estimate these reaction functions using data from German communities. Thereby we explicitly allow for a spatially lagged dependent variable and…
Generationen- oder Parteienkonflikt? Eine empirische Analyse der deutschen Hochschulausgaben
Using a panel of west German states (Länder) for the period 1985 to 2002 we analyse potential effects of demographic change and political constellations on higher education spending, as suggested by recent literature on the political economy of the determination of public expenditures. We find empirical evidence for the hypothesis of a negative relationship between demographic aging and higher spending on public education. In contrast to the hypo…
Intergenerational Conflict, Partisan Politics, and Public Higher Education Spending
Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programs – The East German Experience / Beschäftigungseffekte von Fortbildungs- und Umschulungsmaßnahmen in Ostdeutschland
We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data. We account for unobserved individual heterogeneity in both the training participation and outcome equation. The latter differentiates between transitions into “stable” …
Searching for the "Productivity Slowdown"
The authors test the hypothesis of a negative long-term trend and/or a structural break in total factor productivi ty after the first oil price shock for West German manufacturing industries within an econometric model based on a flexible cost function with capital as a quasi-fixed factor. After adjusting total factor productivity growth for scale economies and varying capacity utilization, this hypothesis is not supported by their empirical find…
The Flip Side of the Coin
The Ageing Working Group (AWG) assesses the long-term sustainability of public finances by presenting a set of public expenditure projections for all Member States, including projections on pensions. These projections are based on demographic forecasts and agreed assumptions on key economic variables. The adequacy and sustainability of pensions are, however, two sides of the same coin and a full assessment of pensions therefore requires integrati…
Searching for the "Productivity Slowdown"
The authors test the hypothesis of a negative long-term trend and/or a structural break in total factor productivi ty after the first oil price shock for West German manufacturing industries within an econometric model based on a flexible cost function with capital as a quasi-fixed factor. After adjusting total factor productivity growth for scale economies and varying capacity utilization, this hypothesis is not supported by their empirical find…
Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programs – The East German Experience / Beschäftigungseffekte von Fortbildungs- und Umschulungsmaßnahmen in Ostdeutschland
We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data. We account for unobserved individual heterogeneity in both the training participation and outcome equation. The latter differentiates between transitions into “stable” …
Intergenerational Conflict, Partisan Politics, and Public Higher Education Spending
Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending
We consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods: one that benefits mobile skilled workers and one that benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different spending categories. We then estimate these reaction functions using data from German communities. Thereby we explicitly allow for a spatially lagged dependent variable and…
Generationen- oder Parteienkonflikt? Eine empirische Analyse der deutschen Hochschulausgaben
Using a panel of west German states (Länder) for the period 1985 to 2002 we analyse potential effects of demographic change and political constellations on higher education spending, as suggested by recent literature on the political economy of the determination of public expenditures. We find empirical evidence for the hypothesis of a negative relationship between demographic aging and higher spending on public education. In contrast to the hypo…
Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed --Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) an employment bonus in the form of subsidized social security contributions on low wages. The work-incentive, labor-supply, and welfare effects of these policy reforms are analyzed on the basis of a behavioral microsimulation model for Germany. We find that the simulated labor-supply effects of the three policy refor…
Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany
We analyze the effects of three different proposals to introduce a family tax-splitting system in Germany. The empirical analysis is based on a behavioral microsimulation model, which integrates an empirical household labor-supply model into a detailed tax-benefit model. Our results show that, under each reform, the lion's share of the reduction in taxes would accrue to families in the upper part of the income distribution, and that labor-supply …
The Flip Side of the Coin
The Ageing Working Group (AWG) assesses the long-term sustainability of public finances by presenting a set of public expenditure projections for all Member States, including projections on pensions. These projections are based on demographic forecasts and agreed assumptions on key economic variables. The adequacy and sustainability of pensions are, however, two sides of the same coin and a full assessment of pensions therefore requires integrati…
Der ökonomische Angleichungsprozess in Ostdeutschland
In diesem Beitrag werden Stand und Perspektiven des ökonomischen Angleichungsprozesses in Ostdeutschland dargestellt und bewertet. Dazu werden zunächst die Anpassungsprozesse am Arbeitsmarkt und die Einkommensentwicklung seit der Wiedervereinigung beschrieben. Anschließend werden Forschungsergebnisse zur zukünftigen Entwicklung der Erwerbsbiografien jüngerer Geburtskohorten und deren Alterseinkünfte aus der Gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung präsent…
Getting the Poor to Work
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income equal to the current level of the means-tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative reforms that involve employment subsidies to stimulate participation and full-time work, respectively. We estimate labor supply reactions and welfare effects using …
Economics (10 works) · German (5 works) · Public economics (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Macroeconomics (4 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Political science (4 works)