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Taxes, Debts, and Redistributions with Aggregate Shocks
Bhandari, Anmol - 2013
A planner sets a lump sum transfer and a linear tax on labor income in an economy with incomplete markets, heterogeneous agents, and aggregate shocks. The planner's concerns about redistribution impart a welfare cost to fluctuating transfers. The distribution of net asset holdings across agents...
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Informal Labor and the Efficiency Cost of Social Programs : Evidence from the Brazilian Unemployment Insurance Program
Gerard, François - 2016
It is widely believed that the presence of a large informal sector increases the efficiency cost of social programs - transfer and social insurance programs - in developing countries. We evaluate such claims for policies that have been heavily studied in countries with low informality -...
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The Labor Supply of Undocumented Immigrants
Borjas, George J. - 2016
The Department of Homeland Security estimates that 11.4 million undocumented persons reside in the United States. Congress and President Obama are considering a number of proposals to regularize the status of the undocumented population and provide a "path to citizenship." Any future change in...
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Globalization and Factor Income Taxation
Bachas, Pierre; Fisher-Post, Matthew H.; Jensen, Anders; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How has globalization affected the relative taxation of labor and capital, and why? To address this question we build and analyze a new database of effective macroeconomic tax rates covering 150 countries since 1965, constructed by combining national accounts data with government revenue...
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Notes on Optimal Wage Taxation and Uncertainty
Eaton, Jonathan - 1979
Most contributions to optimal tax theory have assumed that all prices, including that of leisure, are known with certainty. The purpose of this paper is to analyze optimal taxation when workers have imperfect information about their wages at the time they choose their labor supplies. Both...
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Dynamic Taxation
Stantcheva, Stefanie - 2020
This paper reviews recent advances in the study of dynamic taxation, considering three main approaches: the dynamic Mirrlees, the parametric Ramsey, and the sufficient statistics approaches. In the first approach, agents' heterogeneous abilities to earn income are private information and evolve...
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Long-term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from the US and Europe Since the 1980s
Bick, Alexander - 2018
We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...
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Increasing Hours Worked : Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform
Tazhitdinova, Alisa - 2020
Moonlighting is increasingly popular in OECD countries, with 5 to 10% of workers holding two or more jobs. However …, little is known about the responsiveness of moonlighting to financial incentives due to the lack of identifying variation … marginal tax rate by between 19.5 to 66pp. I show that the reform resulted in a dramatic increase in moonlighting that was not …
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Aggregate Implications of Labor Market Distortions : The Recession of 2008-9 and Beyond
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2010
the end of 2007 as its only impulse - produces time series for aggregate labor usage, consumption, investment, and real …
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Bounds on Elasticities with Optimization Frictions : A Synthesis of Micro and Macro Evidence on Labor Supply
Chetty, Raj - 2009
How can price elasticities be identified when agents face optimization frictions such as adjustment costs or inattention? I derive bounds on structural price elasticities that are a function of the observed effect of a price change on demand, the size of the price change, and the degree of...
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