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Explaining the declining labor supply responsiveness of married women

Jia, Zhiyang; Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, Trine Engh - 2024

While the consensus in the literature is that the labor supply of married women is more responsive than that of married men, there are indications that this gap is narrowing. Our estimations of a structural discrete choice labor supply model using repeated cross-sectional data confirms this...

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Optimal redistribution and monitoring of labor effort

Zoutman, Floris T.; Jacobs, Bas - 2014

This paper extends the Mirrlees (1971) model of optimal non-linear income taxation with a monitoring technology that allows the government to verify labor effort at a positive, but non-infinite cost. Monitored individuals receive a penalty, which increases if individuals earn a lower income...

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Optimal taxation, child care and models of the household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014

This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...

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Optimal taxation and the household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2016

. The main reason for this is the inequity created by income splitting in the presence of a high degree of inequality in the …

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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...

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The commitment value of prefunded pensions

Garon, Jean-Denis - 2015

This paper studies how prefunding public pensions can improve policy outcomes when short-sighted governments cannot commit. We focus on sustainable plans, where optimal nonlinear pensions are not reneged on by sequential governments. Prefunding pensions is a commitment mechanism. It implies...

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Distributional effects of macroeconomic shocks in real-time : a novel method applied to the Covid-19 crisis in Germany

Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin; … - 2020

expectations, a structural labor demand model, and a tax-benefit microsimulation model. Our findings show that as of September 2020 …

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Does a wealth tax improve equality of opportunity?

Berg, Kristoffer; Hebous, Shafik - 2021

Does parental wealth inequality impact next generation labor income inequality? And does a tax on parental wealth …

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Pensions, income taxes and homeownership : a cross-country analysis

Fehr, Hans; Hofmann, Maurice; Kudrna, George - 2021

This paper studies the role of pensions and income taxes in determining homeownership and household wealth. It provides a cross-country analysis, using tax and pension policy designs in Germany, the US and Australia. These developed nations have similar incomes per capita but very different...

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Inequality, life expectancy, and the intragenerational redistribution puzzle - some experimental evidence

Krieger, Tim; Meemann, Christine; Traub, Stefan - 2022

relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last … three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This …

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