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Relational contracts, taxation and the household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2009

utility distribution, and then apply the model to examine the effects of a move from joint to individual taxation. We show …

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Local Revenue Hills : A General Equilibrium Specification with Evidence from Four U.S. Cities

Haughwout, Andrew - 2000

.S. cities: Houston (property taxation), Minneapolis (property taxation), New York City (property, general sales, and income … taxation), and Philadelphia (property, gross receipts, and wage taxation). Results suggest that all four of our cities are near …

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Efficiency Effects on the U.S. Economy from Wireless Taxation

Hausman, Jerry - 1999

This paper measures for the first time the economic efficiency effects of the taxation of wireless services, which are …

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Civil Service Reform and Organizational Practices : Evidence from the Pendleton Act

Moreira, Diana B.; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Competitive exams are a standard method for selecting civil servants. Yet, evidence on the effectiveness of such approach is mixed, and lack of personnel data limits our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this varying success. We digitize personnel and financial data to study the impacts...

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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth

Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....

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New Gig Work or Changes in Reporting? Understanding Self-Employment Trends in Tax Data

Garin, Andrew; Jackson, Emilie; Koustas, Dmitri - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Rising self-employment rates in U.S. tax data that are absent in survey data have led to speculation that tax records capture a rise in new "gig" work that surveys miss. Drawing on the universe of IRS tax returns, we show that trends in firm-reported payments to "gig" and other contract workers...

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Billionaire Superstar : Public Image and Demand for Taxation

Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; Yusof, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

lower than the average American. Is this due to a lack of public support for taxation? Is it due to misperceptions about … treatments would positively affect the demand for taxation, most treatments have a null or negative effect. Providing information … about the lavish lifestyles of billionaires does have a robust positive effect on the demand for taxation …

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Trends and Gradients in Top Tax Elasticities: Cross-Country Evidence, 1900 2014

Rubolino, Enrico; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017

We compile data spanning the period 1900 2014 and up to 30 countries to study long-run patterns in the tax elasticity of top incomes. Our results show that top tax elasticities vary tremendously over time; they were medium-to-low before 1950, virtually zero during the postwar era up to 1980 and...

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Taxation, aggregates and the household

Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - 2008

We evaluate reforms to the U.S. tax system in a dynamic setup with heterogeneous married and single households, and with an operative extensive margin in labor supply. We restrict our model with observations on gender and skill premia, labor force participation of married females across skill...

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Selective reductions in labor taxation: Labor market adjustments and macroeconomic performance

Batyra, Anna; Sneessens, Henri R. - 2010

We use a calibrated general equilibrium model with heterogeneous labor and search to evaluate the quantitative effects of various labor tax cut scenarios. The focus is on skill heterogeneity combined with downward wage rigidities at the low end of the skill ladder. Workers can take jobs for...

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