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Viktor Steiner is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields within the social sciences, with a particular focus on social sciences, business, management and accounting, and decision sciences. Within these broader fields, Steiner has contributed to subfields including accounting, gender studies, management science and operations research, economics and econometrics, and sociology and political science.

Their main research topics cover a range of areas such as gender, labor, and family dynamics, demographic modeling and climate adaptation, corporate taxation and avoidance, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, spatial and panel data analysis, income, poverty and inequality, as well as social policy and reform studies.

Steiner has published several papers, including:

  • The effects of income taxation on entrepreneurial investment: A puzzle? (2020) published in International Tax and Public Finance
  • A Joint Top Income and Wealth Distribution (2021) published in Refubium (Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin)
  • Beschäftigungs- und Einkommenseffekte einer Mindestsicherungsreform in Österreich (2025) published in Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter.

The scientist has collaborated with a number of frequent co-authors, including Frank M. Fossen, Ray Rees, Davud Rostam-Afschar, Junyi Zhu, and Florian Wakolbinger.

Steiner's work has appeared in publication venues such as International Tax and Public Finance, Refubium (Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin), and Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter.

Best Publications

  • FROM BOTTOM TO TOP: THE ENTIRE INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN GERMANY, 1992–2003

    Stefan Bach;Giacomo Corneo;Viktor Steiner

  • Household Taxation, Income Splitting and Labor Supply Incentives: A Microsimulation Study for Germany

    Viktor Steiner;Katharina Wrohlich

  • Effective profit taxation and the elasticity of the corporate income tax base: Evidence from German corporate tax return data

    Nadja Dwenger;Viktor Steiner

  • Wages in the East German Transition Process: Facts and Explanations

    Wolfgang Franz;Viktor Steiner

  • Work Incentives and Labor Supply Effects of the 'Mini-Jobs Reform' in Germany

    Viktor Steiner;Katharina Wrohlich

  • Unemployment Persistence in the West German Labour Market: Negative Duration Dependence or Sorting?

    Viktor Steiner

  • Distributional and Fiscal Effects of the German Tax Reform 2000 : A Behavioral Microsimulation Analysis

    Peter Haan;Viktor Steiner

  • Documentation of the tax-benefit microsimulation model STSM: Version 2012

    Viktor Steiner;Katharina Wrohlich;Peter Haan;Johannes Geyer

  • Effective taxation of top incomes in Germany

    Stefan Bach;Giacomo Corneo;Viktor Steiner;Viktor Steiner

  • Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending: Theory and Evidence

    Rainald Borck;Marco Caliendo;Viktor Steiner

  • A Wealth Tax on the Rich to Bring Down Public Debt? Revenue and Distributional Effects of a Capital Levy in Germany

    Stefan Bach;Martin Beznoska;Viktor Steiner

  • Assimilation, labour market experience and earnings profiles of temporary and permanent immigrant workers in Germany

    Georg Licht;Viktor Steiner

  • Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programs : The East German Experience

    Florian Kraus;Patrick A. Puhani;Viktor Steiner

  • Has earnings inequality in Germany changed in the 1980's?

    Viktor Steiner;Kersten Wagner

  • Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programs – The East German Experience / Beschäftigungseffekte von Fortbildungs- und Umschulungsmaßnahmen in Ostdeutschland

    Florian Kraus;Patrick Puhani;Viktor Steiner

  • Distributional Effects of the German Tax Reform 2000 - A Behavioral Microsimulation Analysis

    Peter Haan;Viktor Steiner

  • Financial leverage and corporate taxation Evidence from German corporate tax return data

    Nadja Dwenger;Viktor Steiner

  • Extended benefit entitlement periods and the duration of unemployment in West Germany

    Viktor Steiner

  • Re-Migration Behavior and Expected Duration of Stay of Guest Workers in Germany

    Viktor Steiner;Johannes Velling

  • Dokumentation des Steuer-Transfer-Mikrosimulationsmodells STSM 1999 - 2002

    Viktor Steiner;Peter Haan;Katharina Wrohlich

  • Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany

    Bernhard Boockmann;Viktor Steiner

Frequent Co-Authors

Giacomo Corneo
Giacomo Corneo Freie Universität Berlin
Marco Caliendo
Marco Caliendo University of Potsdam
Clemens Fuest
Clemens Fuest Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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