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 …

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 analyzes the sources of heterogeneity in legal tax avoidance strategies across individuals. Three conditions … are required for a taxpayer to participate in tax avoidance: incentive, access, and awareness. Using rich Swedish … administrative panel data with a unique link between corporate and individual tax returns, we analyze individual participation in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

rights. While the portability of pensions and other social benefits has received some analytical attention over the recent … internationally portable pensions mixes notional front-loaded taxation (as the tax due on contributions/savings is deferred) with … actual back-loaded taxation as the taxes are due when the benefits are disbursed (in source or residency country) or when …

This paper analyses optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual …