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On Modeling Household Labor Supply with Taxation
Bargain, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Discrete-choice models provide a simple way of representing utility-maximizing labor supply decisions in the presence of highly nonlinear and possibly non-convex budget constraints. Thus, it is not surprising that they are so extensively used for ex-ante evaluation of taxbenefit reforms. The...
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Explaining the Evolution of Hours Worked and Employment across OECD Countries: An Equilibrium Search Approach
Langot, François; Quintero Rojas, Coralia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Since 1960, the dynamics of the aggregate hours of market work exhibit dramatic differences across industrialized countries. Before 1980, these differences seem to come from the hours worked per employee (the intensive margin). However, since 1980 a notable feature of the data is that the...
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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US: New Results
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that own-wage...
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Market Distortions and Local Indeterminacy: A General Approach
Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor; Seegmuller, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We provide a methodology to study the role of market distortions on the emergence of indeterminacy and bifurcations. Most of the specific market imperfections considered in the related literature are particular cases of our framework. Comparing them we obtain several equivalence results in terms...
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Wage Setting in Modern Labor Markets: Neither Fair Nor Efficient
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The increasing wage inequality in many countries is usually seen as brought about by economic forces that drive for economic efficiency within a changing technological and social environment. Ethical evaluations of these developments diverge, yet the view that free labor markets drive to...
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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Taxing Women: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
current system of taxation, setting a proportional tax rate on married females equal to 4% (8%) increases output and married …
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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation
Apps, Patricia; Long, Ngo Van; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Given its significance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the …
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Progressive Taxation and Tax Morale
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
help to understand and fight tax evasion. In this paper we analyze the effect of progressive taxation on tax morale in a …
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Beyond the Labour Income Tax Wedge: The Unemployment-Reducing Effect of Tax Progressivity
Lehmann, Etienne; Lucifora, Claudio; Moriconi, Simone; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper we argue that, for a given overall level of labour income taxation, a more progressive tax schedule … on a panel of 21 OECD countries over 1998-2008. Controlling for the burden of taxation at the average wage, our estimates … are confirmed when we account for the potential endogeneity of both average taxation and progressivity. Overall, our …
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