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The recent public debt crisis in most developed economies implies an urgent need for increasing tax revenues or cutting government spending. In this paper we study the importance of household heterogeneity and the progressivity of the labor income tax schedule for the ability of the government...
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also show that, relative to a representative agent economy tax revenues are less sensitive to the progressivity of the tax … code in our economy. This finding is due to the fact that labor supply of two earner households is less elastic (along the …
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