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Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Extensive and Intensive Responses
Jacquet, Laurence - 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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Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform
Duncan, Denvil - 2009
We exploit the exogenous change in marginal tax rates created by the Russian flat tax reform of 2001 to identify the effect of taxes on labor supply of males and females. We apply the weighted difference-in-difference regression approach and instrumental variables to the labor supply function...
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Sufficient Statistic or Not? The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Deduction Possibilities
Dörrenberg, Philipp - 2014
The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is often interpreted as a sufficient statistic to assess the welfare costs of … 0.49 and an elasticity of deductions with respect to the net-of-tax rate of -2.80. Given that the majority of deductions … in the German income tax system generate externalities, our non-zero deduction elasticity suggests that the ETI is not …
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How Should Capital Be Taxed? Theory and Evidence from Sweden
Bastani, Spencer - 2018
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of capital taxation in advanced economies with a focus on the Swedish experience. We synthesize the existing theoretical literature, present facts about the capital stock and its distribution, review current capital tax practices and...
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Education and Optimal Dynamic Taxation
Findeisen, Sebastian - 2011
We study optimal tax and educational policies in a dynamic private information economy, in which ex-ante heterogeneous individuals make an educational investment early in their life and face a stochastic wage distribution. We characterize labor and education wedges in this setting analytically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118777
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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation
Apps, Patricia F. - 2011
Given its significance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the literature. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main characteristics. We fully characterize optimal tax parameters for the cases in which budget sets are convex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119548
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Mobility, Taxation and Welfare
Bibi, Sami - 2011
Income mobility is often thought to equalize permanent incomes and thereby to improve social welfare. The welfare analysis of mobility often fails, however, to account for the cost of the variability of periodic incomes around permanent incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of...
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Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families
Blundell, Richard W. - 2011
The optimal design of low income support is examined using a structural labour supply model. The approach incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work, childcare costs and the detailed non-convexities of the tax and transfer system. The analysis considers purely Pareto improving...
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Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments
Lehmann, Etienne - 2013
, extending the Diamond-Saez formula. The theory and numerical simulations on the US case show that the level and the slope of the … semi-elasticity of migration on which we lack empirical evidence are crucial to derive the shape of optimal marginal income …
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Accounting for Family Background When Designing Optimal Income Taxes : A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis
Aaberge, Rolf - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal income taxation. Unlike the pure EOp criterion of Roemer (1998) the extended EOp criterion allows...
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