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Tax Policy and Employment: How Does the Swedish System Fare?
Pirttälä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
This paper reviews the literature on optimal taxation of labour income and the empirical work on labour supply and the elasticity of taxable income in Sweden. It also presents an overview of Swedish taxation of labour income, offers calculations on the development in effective marginal tax rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836582
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Labor Taxation in Search Equililbrium with Home Production
Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642487
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Labor Taxation in Search Equilibrium with Home Production.
Holmlund, B. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669620
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Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives: Evidence from Sweden
M Gelber, Alexander - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
This paper examines the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax rates changed independently, allowing me to examine the effect of both spouses' incentives on each spouse's behavior. I compare the results to those of more simplified econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651891
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Labour Supply Responses to Paid Parental Leave
Karimi, Arizo; Lindahl, Erica; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Women account for the majority of parental leave take-up, which is likely one of the major reasons for the gender gap in income and wages. Consequently, many countries exert effort to promote a more gender equal division of parental leave. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690429
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The impact of microfinance on factors empowering women: Differences in regional and delivery mechanisms in India’s SHG programme
Bali Swain, Ranjula; Wallentin, Fan Yang - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
We examine how the impact on women empowerment varies with respect to the location and type of group linkage of the respondent. Using household survey data from five states in India, we correct for selection bias to estimate a structural equation model. Our results reveal that in the southern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945078
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Simulating the future of the Swedish baby-boom generations
Klevmarken, N. Anders; Bolin, Kristian; Eklöf, Matias; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007
For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement,...
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Estimating Income Responses to Tax Changes: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach
Holmlund, Bertil; Söderström, Martin - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007
elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate, i.e., one minus the marginal tax <p> rate. We offer new evidence on this matter by making use of a large panel of Swedish tax payers over the period 1991-2002. Changes in statutory tax rates as well as discretionary changes in tax...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190464
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Hourly Wage Rate and Taxable Labor Income Responsiveness to Changes in Marginal Tax Rates
Blomquist, Sören; Selin, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2008
Recently, a voluminous literature estimating the taxable income elasticity has emerged as an important field in empirical public economics. However, to a large extent it is still unknown how the hourly wage rate, an important component of taxable income, reacts to changes in marginal tax rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419492
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Hourly Wage Rate and Taxable Labor Income Responsiveness to Changes in Marginal Tax Rates
Blomquist, Sören; Selin, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2008
Recently, a voluminous literature estimating the taxable income elasticity has emerged as an important field in empirical public economics. However, to a large extent it is still unknown how the hourly wage rate, an important component of taxable income, reacts to changes in marginal tax rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642512