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Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages … find a negative effect of corporate taxation on wages: a 1 euro increase in tax liabilities yields a 77 cent decrease in …
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taxes on bank wages. As the corporate tax may be borne by labor, a natural question to ask is whether the economic incidence … regulatory incidence by estimating the degree to which banking regulations and company taxes on banks influence wages in the … banking sector. We use individual data on wages combined with data from US states on the states' tax rates and timing of …
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business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax …
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manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …
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provide an empirical application, where DCFs are applied to estimate the incidence of payroll tax on wages paid to employees … the incidence of the tax is shifted onto workers through incidental payments, rather than contracted wages. Heterogeneity …
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This paper presents a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model that can explain cross-country empirical regularities in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance (UI), taking the dynamic distortionary e.ects of...
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A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor market dynamics. We revisit this old question studying the German Hartz reforms. On average, lower separation rates explain 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact...
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. Our evidence suggests that employers capture about 6-14 percent of the transfers through lower wages when they mediate the …
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Since gasoline has a relatively inelastic demand, raising government revenue via gasoline taxes could appear appropriate as it entails a relatively small deadweight loss. However, gasoline retail is generally a highly concentrated market, hence the assumption of perfect competition when...
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Half of the jobs in the U.S. feature pay-for-performance. We study nonlinear income taxation in a model where such contracts arise in private labor markets that are constrained by moral hazard frictions. We derive novel formulas for the incidence of arbitrarily nonlinear reforms of a given tax...
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