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Fiscal incidence on the island : Grenada's fiscal system and its incidence

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Gómez Aliaga, Guillermo; … - 2024

This paper examines the distributional effects of fiscal policy in Grenada. Using data from the 2017-2018 Living Conditions and Household Budgets Survey and following the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) analysis framework, we estimate the effects of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and...

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Immigration and public spending

Böheim, René (contributor); Mayr, Karin (contributor) - 2005

We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical perspective. We distinguish between public spending on private goods and on public goods. Our model implies that whether immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily...

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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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Back to the future : decomposition analysis of distributive policies using behavioural simulations

Bargain, Olivier - 2010

For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from changes in the environment in which policies operate. When actual reforms are motivated by work incentives, it is also crucial to evaluate behavioural responses and the...

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Tax-benefit systems and the gender gap in income

Doorley, Karina; Keane, Claire - 2020

The gender wage gap and the gender work gap are sizable, persistent and well documented for many countries. The result of the gender wage and gender work gap combined is an income gap between men and women. A small literature has begun to examine how the tax-benefit system contributes to closing...

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Learning from the "best" : the impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence - 2018

Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing public spending. This paper aims at characterizing the redistributive potential of six African countries: Ghana, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Africa. These...

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Gender based taxation and the division of family chores

Alesina, Alberto (contributor); Ichino, Andrea (contributor) - 2007

, both spouses may gain from GBT. -- Optimal taxation ; economics of gender ; family economics ; elasticity of labor supply …

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The own-wage elasticity of labor demand : a meta-regression analysis

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014

. Building on 942 elasticity estimates from 105 different studies, we identify sources of variation in the absolute value of this … elasticity. Heterogeneity due to the theoretical and empirical specification of the labor demand model, different datasets used … evidence for the presence of publication selection bias, as estimates of the own-wage elasticity of labor demand are upwardly …

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Taxation and the long run allocation of labor : theory and Danish evidence

Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Munch, Jakob Roland; … - 2014

large public finance literature estimating the elasticity of taxable income and quantifying the efficiency loss from … allocation corresponds to an elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate in the range 0.15-0.35. …

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Estimating labor-supply elasticities with joint borrowing constraints of couples

Bredemeier, Christian; Gravert, Jan; Jüßen, Falko - 2016

Estimates of Frisch labor-supply elasticities are biased in the presence of borrowing constraints. We show that this estimation bias is less pronounced for secondary than for primary earners. The reason is that, in households with two earners and joint borrowing constraints, wage-rate...

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