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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint …

. 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 …

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 …

use this experimental framework to test whether a labor income tax and an equivalent consumption tax lead to an identical … allowing for saving, subjects reduce their labor supply significantly more in response to an income tax than they do in … response to an equivalent consumption tax. We discuss the economic implications of a policy shift from an income to a …

their income, finding, for instance, an effective tax rate of only 38.1% for the 0.001% fractile of German income taxpayers … in 2001. This result contrasts sharply with the legislated top marginal income tax rate of 48.5%. We subject the results … measurement of effective tax rates, we provide values for what we term the comprehensive nominal tax rate" (CNTR) and show that …

, 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. …

a vital area of economic research. This paper adds to this literature by estimating the tax price elasticity of … contributions to tax-favoured pension savings accounts on a population of self-employed individuals. I exploit a unique total data … base over the Swedish population that covers the years 1999 to 2005. Using instrumental variables, I obtain a tax price …