Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/27261 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 737
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current German tax and transfer system for single women optimal. Furthermore, we compare the welfare function conditional on the presence and age of children and assess how reforms of in-kind childcare transfers would affect the welfare function. This analysis allows us to derive conclusions about the optimal design of child related transfers and in-kind benefits.
Subjects: 
Optimal Taxation
Labor Supply Behavior
Transfers for Children
JEL: 
C23
C25
J22
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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