We show that the effectiveness of redistribution policy in stimulating the economy and improving welfare is directly … regime counteract the deflationary forces during the recession. Moreover, redistribution produces a Pareto improvement under …

growth enhancing tax and expenditure reform. We quantitatively illustrate that this reform based strategy, by … yet avoids increasing tax rates. With slow consolidation, marginal tax rates are reduced right from the beginning. …

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 …

The present study provides estimates of the Effective Marginal Tax Rates (EMTRs) for a sample of 17 OECD countries and …-country/cross-sector approach allows us comparing the incentives provided by the tax systems and gauging the effects of tax changes taking … explicitly into account the possible substitution between factors as well as their tax incidence. Our results suggest that the …

This study examines how tax system design and reform affect labor supply. We conduct an online experiment with 522 … participants to assess labor responses to tax reforms that introduce or remove a notch, affecting after-tax income at either the … lower or upper end of the income distribution. Our findings indicate asymmetric responses to tax reform as well as …

This paper investigates the factors that shape governments’ capacity to collect revenue. To do so, it analyses how tax … revenue responds to tax rates using evidence from a panel of 34 OECD countries over 1978-2014. The estimations show that the … response of revenue to rates weakens as rates become higher, confirming the existence of a hump-shaped relationship between tax …

-level approach. We combine a microsimulation model with labour market transition techniques to simulate the COVID-19 shock on the …

We present new evidence showing that fiscal austerity strengthens support for redistribution, especially for the … relatively well-off. Our theoretical model proposes two mechanisms to explain this heterogeneity in support for redistribution …

This paper analyses the importance of fiscal mechanisms for regional risk sharing and redistribution in Switzerland …