the development in effective marginal tax rates and participation tax rates, and estimates, using the difference …-in-differences method, the impact of tax incentives on employment rates of elderly workers. After this background, we ponder possibilities … for reforming the Swedish tax system to improve its labour market impacts. We suggest better targeting the earned income …

There is often a gap between the prescriptions of an optimal tax system and actual tax systems, some of which can be … reviews the political economics literature on tax systems and reforms to see whether political mechanisms allow us to better … understand why tax systems look the way they look. Finally, we exploit a database of reforms in labour taxation in the European …

income with respect to the net-of-tax rate, i.e., one minus the marginal tax 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 bracket thresholds provide exogenous variations in tax rates that can be used to identify income …

wages, assume that a higher employee-borne tax burden reduces effort. In turn, this raises a firm's production costs and … reduces efficiency. Accordingly, we show that a higher employee-borne income tax negatively influences a multinational …'s profit by reducing manager effort. Furthermore, we compile data on personal income tax profiles for 49 economies and the year …

personal income tax profiles for 49 economies and the year 2002. In particular, we determine the component of labor taxes which …, we calculate the progressivity of personal income tax rates between the average wage and five times the average wage …. This may be interpreted as the tax progression which is relevant for well-paid workers. Then, we use the personal income …

, 1971 the average tax rate facing the housewife was a function of the income of her husband. By exploiting a rich register … based data source I utilize the exogenous variation provided by the individual tax reform to analyze the evolution of female … percentage points lower in 1975 if the 1969 statutory income tax system still had been in place in 1975. …

The German Income Tax Reform 2000, which announced a reduction in income tax rates to be implemented in a series of … Income Tax Reform should be brought forward. The present paper assesses the welfare and macroeconomic consequences of the … German Income Tax Reform in the scope of a simplified DGE model of the Auerbach-Kotlikoff type and deals explicitly with the …

saving programme rather than as a tax-and-transfer system, thereby raising labour force participation rates but also …