Over the last twenty years we have seen an increasing use of in-work tax subsidies to encourage labor supply among low …-income groups. In Sweden, a non-targeted earned income tax credit was introduced in 2007, and was reinforced in 2008, 2009 and 2010 … earned income tax credit reform up to 2008. For identification we exploit the fact that the size of the tax credit, as well …

Over the last twenty years we have seen an increasing use of in-work tax subsidies to encourage labor supply among low …-income groups. In Sweden, a non-targeted earned income tax credit was introduced in 2007, and was reinforced in 2008, 2009 and 2010 … earned income tax credit reform up to 2008. For identification we exploit the fact that the size of the tax credit, as well …

taxable income, reacts to changes in marginal tax rates. In this study we use a rich panel data set and a sequence of tax … reforms that took place in Sweden during the 1980's to estimate the elasticity of the hourly wage rate with respect to the net-of-tax … rate. While carefully accounting for the endogeneity of marginal tax rates as well as other factors that determine wage …