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I estimate permanent and transitory tax-price and income elasticity of charitable giving in Germany using a rich panel … data of tax return for the years 2001-2006. Income tax reforms were implemented in 2004 and 2005. The results suggest that … the permanent tax-price elasticity varies significantly by income class, ranging from -0.2 for low incomes to -1.6 for …
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spending on the provision of public goods may cause crowding out of private charitable contributions; and (2) tax incentives … may boost private charitable giving. For a rich sample of German income tax returns, we estimate elasticities of … charitable giving regarding tax incentives, income and governmental spending. Using censored quantile regression, we are able to …
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apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … reductions and a controversial overhaul of the transfer system. The simulations show that tax and transfer reforms have had an …
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dynamic microsimulation model to a tax-benefit simulator that allows converting gross wages into disposable incomes. On …We quantify the private and fiscal lifetime returns to higher education in Germany accounting for the redistribution … through the tax-and-transfer system, cohort effects, and the effect of income pooling within households. For this purpose we …
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. However, refinancing its substantial fiscal costs through a general consumption tax reduces aggregate labor supply and … household utility levels, with progressive absolute losses. A lump-sum tax preserves the immediate positive labor supply effect …, but completely reverses the benefits from the allowance except for households in the bottom income decile. …
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This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On the basis of the estimated labor supply...
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Traditionally, labour supply data do not include much information on hours and wages in secondary job or overtime work. In this paper, we estimate labour supply models based on survey information on hours and wages in overtime work and second job which is merged to detailed register information...
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We estimate the responses of gross labor earnings with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over … the period 2003-2006. We exploit a series of reforms to the income-tax and the payroll-tax schedules that affect … marginal net-of-income-tax rate is around 0.2, while we find no response to the marginal net-of-payroll-tax rate. The …
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Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...
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