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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...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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The Taxable Income Elasticity: A Structural Differencing Approach
Kumar, Anil; Liang, Che-Yuan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2015
We extend a standard taxable income model with its typical functional-form assumptions to account for nonlinear budget sets. We propose a new method to estimate a taxable income elasticity that is more policy relevant than the typically estimated elasticity based on linearized budget sets. Using...
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Distribution-Free Structural Estimation with Nonlinear Budget Sets
Liang, Che-Yuan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
I develop a structural method for evaluating labor supply in nonlinear budget sets that does not require any distributional assumptions. The model only requires that preferences are convex on the budget frontier. It can be extended to account for features such as fixed costs of work and the...
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Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Holter, Hans A; Chakraborty, Indraneel; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level dierences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also document...
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Nonparametric Estimation of Labor Supply Functions Generated by Piece Wise Linear Budget Constraints
Blomquist, S.; Newey, W. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997
The basic idea in this paper is that labor supply can be viewed as a function of the entire budget set, so that one way to account non-parametrically for a nonlinear budget set is to estimate a nonparametric regression where the variable in the regression is the budget set. In the special case...
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