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Age-targeted income taxation, labor supply, and retirement
Gustafsson, Johan - 2021
This paper studies the life-cycle effects of favorable marginal tax treatment of older workers on their optimal life …
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Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data : a bridge between micro and macro estimates?
Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - 2014
it spans over four decades and includes a large number of tax reform episodes, with tax rate variation arising both from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412760
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The dynamic cost of the draft
Igel Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2002
We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model with human capital accumulation to evaluate the economic consequences of compulsory services (such as military draft or social services). Our analysis identifies a so far ignored dynamic cost arising from distortions in time allocation over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541161
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Health dynamics shape life-cycle incomes
Kotschy, Rainer - 2019
This paper empirically investigates the long-run effects of major health improvements on income growth in the United States. To isolate exogenous changes in health, the econometric model uses quasi-experimental variation in cardiovascular disease mortality across states over time. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124859
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Uncertain longevity and investment in education
Sheshinski, Eytan - 2009
It has been argued that increased life expectancy raises the rate of return on education, causing a rise in the investment in education followed by an increase in lifetime labor supply. Empirical evidence of these relations is rather weak. Building on a lifecycle model with uncertain longevity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883894
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Is Prescott right? : welfare state policies and the incentives to work, learn and retire
Jacobs, Bas (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003674460
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The effect of labor market shocks across the life cycle
Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2021
Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual's career, and economic shocks may therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745247
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Fertility and family labor supply
Jakobsen, Katrine Marie; Jørgensen, Thomas H.; Low, Hamish - 2022
longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013201692
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Is the collective model of labor supply useful for tax policy analysis? : a simulation exercise
Bargain, Olivier; Moreau, Nicolas - 2003
effect of tax-benefit policies. We simulate this effect in the framework of a collective model of labor supply when shifting … from a joint to an individual taxation system in France. We show that the net-of-tax relative earning potential of the wife … sensitivity analysis shows that the collective model would be required if the tax reform was both radical and of extended scope. …
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Which Communities should be afraid of mobility? : the effects of agglomeration economies on the sensitivity of firm location to local taxes
Jofre-Monseny, Jordi (contributor);  … - 2008
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