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expectations, a structural labor demand model, and a tax-benefit microsimulation model. Our findings show that as of September 2020 …. However, the tax benefit system and discretionary policy responses to the crisis act as important income stabilizers, since …
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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 …
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Does parental wealth inequality impact next generation labor income inequality? And does a tax on parental wealth …. The estimated hypothetical wage distribution without the wealth tax is more unequal. Moreover, suggestive evidence …
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Models of labor supply derived from stochastic utility representations and discretized sets of feasible hours of work have gained popularity because they are more practical than the standard approaches based on marginal calculus. In this paper we argue that practicality is not the only feature...
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This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint …
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. The robot tax exploits general-equilibrium effects to compress the wage distribution. Wage compression reduces income-tax … distortions of labor supply, thereby raising welfare. In the calibrated model, the optimal robot tax for the US is positive and … generates small welfare gains. As the price of robots falls, inequality rises but the robot tax and its welfare impact become …
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moving from joint taxation to individual taxation and adapting child benefits so as to keep fertility constant entails a … income tax, while the child benefit may move in either direction. Similarly, a move from joint taxation to some scheme of … family tax splitting increases labor supply and welfare. …
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, 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. …
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examine whether the income tax should apply to couples or individuals. While tax-induced labor supply distortions lead to … adjustment of intra-family transfers compensates the secondary earner for the increased tax load. …
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taxable income, reacts to changes in marginal tax rates. In this study we use a rich panel data set and a sequence of tax … reforms that took place in Sweden during the 1980's to estimate the elasticity of the hourly wage rate with respect to the net-of-tax … rate. While carefully accounting for the endogeneity of marginal tax rates as well as other factors that determine wage …
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