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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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This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint …
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additional redistribution. For the bequest tax the sign of the overall welfare effect depends on the reaction of bequests and on …We study the optimal tax system in a dynamic model where differences in wages induce differences in inheritances, and … framework. In particular, given an optimal income tax, a bequest tax as well as a consumption tax are potential instruments for …
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distribution, review current capital tax practices and empirical findings regarding their effects on economic activity. The paper … implications for tax policy. …
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optimal tax formulas, optimal schedular income tax rates additionally depend on cross-elasticities between tax bases capturing … and the taxation of couples. For these applications, we calculate income type-specific optimal tax rates for Germany using … rich panel data from administrative tax records. We first estimate income-type specific elasticities with respect to the …
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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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's skill composition. A proportional labour income tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an … the economy. The government can correct for this distortion by use of differentiated tuition fees or tax rates. …
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Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the welfare or the productivity of the former, it has no option but to act through the latter. Parents are, in the ordinary sense of the word, the government’s agents. They are agents...
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