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and identical between countries except for the timing of taxation. Expected taxation rather than current tax levels …
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This note provides an extensive survey of studies estimating steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe and the US. Differences are driven by the heterogeneity in work preferences across countries and by methodological difference across studies (data, selection or model estimation...
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We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status, with measurement differences netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that...
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introduce either taxation or rationing. Each treatment is subjected to two conditions: the burden of the deficit is either …-riding. Individualized taxation brings the voluntary contributions closer to the optimum while uniform rationing appears to be the worst …
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. We analyze the role of public spending, financed by labor income and consumption taxation, on the emergence of …
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that health expenditures have not always to be subsidized. Indeed, the taxation of births plays the role of an indirect …
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introduce either taxation or rationing. Each treatment is subjected to two conditions: the burden of the deficit is either …-riding. Individualized taxation brings the voluntary contributions closer to the optimum while uniform rationing appears to be the worst …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750939
Humans can lie strategically in order to leverage on their negotiation power. For instance, governments can claim that a "scapegoat" third party is responsible for reforms that impose higher costs on citizens, in order to make the pill sweeter. This paper analyzes such communication strategy...
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This paper argues that, for a given overall level of labour income taxation, a more progressive tax schedule reduces … these theoretical predictions on a panel of 21 OECD countries over 1998-2008. Controlling for the burden of taxation at the … average wage, we show that a more progressive taxation reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These …
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Earlier studies suggest that income taxation may affect not only labour supply but also domestic work. Here we … investigate the impact of income taxation on partners' labour supply and housework, using data for France that taxes incomes of … replacing joint taxation of married spouses' incomes with separate taxation would increase the husband's housework hours by 1 …
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