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Partisan tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979 - 2007

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - 2013

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle the direct policy effect from the effect of changing market incomes. Over the whole period 1979-2007 the cumulative tax policy effect aggravated income inequality...

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Tax and transfer policies and the female labor supply in the EU

Kalíšková, Klára - 2015

This study contributes to the female labor supply responsiveness literature by measuring the effect of tax-benefit policies on female labor supply based on a broad sample of 26 European countries in 2005-2010. The tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD is used to calculate a measure of work...

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The impact of opportunity zones on commercial investment and economic activity

Corinth, Kevin; Feldman, Naomi - 2022

the United States called Opportunity Zones (OZs). The goal of this provision was to spur private investment in OZs in … the impact of OZs on commercial investment and economic activity. Using data on the universe of all significant commercial … investments in the United States, we find that OZ selection led to practically no increase in investment in OZs. These findings …

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Downward revision of investment decisions after corporate tax hikes

Link, Sebastian; Menkhoff, Manuel; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2023

This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax … changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative sample of German manufacturing firms, we can … study how tax hikes induce firms to revise their investment decisions. On average, the share of firms that invest less than …

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Does the wealth tax kill jobs?

Bjørneby, Marie; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2020

tax imposed on owners of small and medium sized businesses affects their firms' investment and employment decisions …

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Taxing women : a macroeconomic analysis

Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - 2011

Based on well-known evidence on labor supply elasticities, several authors have concluded that women should be taxed at lower rates than men. We evaluate the quantitative implications of taxing women at a lower rate than men. Relative to the current system of taxation, setting a proportional tax...

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Can US coordination failure explain why Americans work so much more than Europeans?

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2014

Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that the opposite may be true and that Americans work more than Europeans due to a coordination...

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An evaluation of the employment effects of barriers to outsourcing

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei - 2011

Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets where the US has a comparative advantage feature...

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Labor supply with social interactions : econometric estimates and their tax policy implications

Grodner, Andrew (contributor); … - 2007

Our econometric research allows for a possible response of a person's hours worked to hours typically worked by members of a multidimensional labor market reference group that considers demographics and geographic location. Instrumental variables estimates of the canonical labor supply model...

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Optimal redistributive taxation with both extensive and intensive responses

Jacquet, Laurence; Lehmann, Etienne; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2010

This paper characterizes optimal income taxation when individuals respond along both the intensive and extensive margins. Individuals are heterogeneous across two dimensions: specifically, their skill and disutility of participation. Preferences over consumption and work effort can differ with...

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