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Optimal redistributive taxation with both labor supply and labor demand responses

Jacquet, Laurence; Lehmann, Etienne; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2011

This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive tax schedule in a matching unemployment framework with endogenous (voluntary) nonparticipation and (involuntary) unemployment. The optimal employment tax rate is given by an inverse employment elasticity rule. This rule depends on the global...

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Household bargaining and the design of couples' income taxation

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie; Maldonado, Darío - 2015

This paper studies the design of couples' income taxation when consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple are made by maximizing a weighted sum of the spouses' utilities; bargaining weights are given but specific to each couple. Information structure and labor supply decisions...

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Are two tax rates better than one?

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y. - 2009

Should two-band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? We provide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this result clarifies some ambiguities in the literature, it does not rule out progressive taxes in general. If we maximize total...

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Should the rich be taxed more? : the fiscal inequality coefficient

Hatgioannides, John; Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2017

This paper holistically addresses the effective (relative) income tax contribution of a given in-come (or, wealth) group. The widely acclaimed standard in public policy is the absolute benefaction of a given income group in filling up the fiscal coffers. Instead, we focus on the ratio of the...

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The wage policy of firms : comparative evidence for the US and Germany from personnel data

Grund, Christian - 2002

in the German firm, as wage regressions show. The results are discussed in comparison to prior studies. …

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Absence from work of the self-employed : a comparison with paid employees

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013

Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals …

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Differences in euro-area household finances and their relevance for monetary-policy transmission

Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2019

prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life …

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Information provision and preferences for education spending : evidence from representative survey experiments in three countries

Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019

treatments in Switzerland using identical survey techniques previously used in Germany and the United States. In Switzerland …

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Wage equalization and regional misallocation : evidence from Italian and German provinces

Boeri, Tito; Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico; Posch, Johanna - 2019

reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining in Italy and Germany. The two countries … West more productive than the East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages … based on nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible …

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How information affects support for education spending : evidence from survey experiments in Germany and the United States

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2016

preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …

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