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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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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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Patriotism, taxation and international mobility

Qari, Salmai; Konrad, Kai A.; Geys, Benny - 2009

redistributive taxation. In a formal model of redistribution with international migration and fiscal competition we derive the main … combining them with OECD taxation data, we find robust evidence suggesting that a) higher patriotism is associated with higher …

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Flexible labor supply models

Bargain, Olivier - 2009

Discrete-choice models of labor supply have become very popular for ex ante evaluations of policy reforms as they easily account for non-convex budget sets. We test the constraints imposed in practice on these models and suggest a fully flexible model that significantly improves fit.

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Income taxation in an empirical collective household labour supply model with discrete hours

Bloemen, Hans G. - 2010

Most empirical studies on the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining …

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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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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of …

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Does income taxation affect partners' household chores?

van Soest, Arthur; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2010

We study the impact of income taxation on both partners' allocation of time to market work and unpaid house work in …'s. Tax policy simulations suggest that moving from joint taxation for married couples to separate taxation of each spouse … would go a small step in the direction of equalizing market and non-market work of spouses. Selective taxation with smaller …

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Income taxation of US households: Basic facts

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

We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts on the distributions of average and marginal taxes, properties of the joint distributions of taxes paid and income,...

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