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 …

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 …

This paper analyses the implications of a currently publicly debated issue, namely the introduction of a bonus tax. We … shed light on the effects of the bonus tax on compensation components and study its incidence. We use the Principal Agent … based compensation component always rises in the country introducing the tax such that the optimal contracts are tilted …

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 …

various ways, it is much harder for firms to manipulate the firm-specific labor tax base so that they may be relatively … location of 35,206 firms to analyze the impact of labor income tax rates, the progressivity of the income tax schedule, and … progressivity of the tax system and higher (employee- and employer-borne) social security contributions negatively influence a …

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