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Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This … that are financed by taxes on imperfectly-mobile high-skilled workers in a dynamic model, distinguishing the short …
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varies across rounds and are required to pay taxes on earned income. The treatment group is given the opportunity to … react differently to taxes. …
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This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...
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encourage early retirement, they reduce the number of people paying taxes and increase the number of people supplementing their … rights." The government’s receipts from the pension taxes or the sale of early retirement rights are used, in part, to …
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The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return,...
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In this paper, we estimate income- and substitution- labour supply and participation elasticities for Canadian married women using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1996-2005. We use the Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator (CTaCS) and detailed information on the structure of...
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This paper analyses the compensatory behavior of smokers. Exploiting data on cotinine concentration - a metabolite of nicotine - measured in a large population of smokers over time, we show that smokers compensate tax hikes by extracting more nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important...
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This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries …
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that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can impose group-specific lump-sum taxes. If …
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In this paper, I will describe in detail both the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit in the U.S., including their origins, their structure, and the effects they have on the labor market and family formation. I will then discuss the macroeconomic implications of U.S. welfare...
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