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Patriotism, taxation and international mobility
Qari, Salmai; Konrad, Kai A.; Geys, Benny - 2009
For patriotic citizens, living in their native country is intrinsically preferable compared to living in the diaspora. In this paper, we analyze the implications of such a patriotic lock-in in a world with international migration and redistributive taxation. In a formal model of redistribution...
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Income taxation in an empirical collective household labour supply model with discrete hours
Bloemen, Hans G. - 2010
the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We … pooling of men's earnings and the household's non-labour income in the female's budget constraint. These differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269394
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Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies : From Households to Individuals
Bargain, Olivier - 2004
household labor supply and a microsimulation program of the French taxbenefit system. The collective approach allows studying … rather than an ambiguous concept of household welfare. This way, the planner?s preferences address not only inter-household … inequalities but also intra-household inequalities often neglected in the literature. The other contribution of the paper derives …
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Labour supply and taxes
Meghir, Costas; Phillips, David - 2008
In this paper we provide an overview of the literature relating labour supply to taxes and welfare benefits with a focus on presenting the empirical consensus. We begin with a basic continuous hours model, where individuals have completely free choice over their hours of work. We then consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268568
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Explaining the evolution of hours worked and employment across OECD countries: an equilibrium search approach
Langot, François - 2008
Since 1960, the dynamics of the aggregate hours of market work exhibit dramatic differences across industrialized countries. Before 1980, these differences seem to come from the hours worked per employee (the intensive margin). However, since 1980 a notable feature of the data is that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268898
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The redistributive effects of tax benefit systems in the enlarged EU
Fuest, Clemens; Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
How do different components of the tax and transfer systems affect disposable income inequality? This paper explores the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality analysis based on the standard approach suggests that...
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The design of unemployment transfers: evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2010
In this paper we use a dynamic structural life-cycle model to analyze the employment, fiscal and welfare effects induced by unemployment insurance. The model features a detailed specification of the tax and transfer system, including unemployment insurance benefits which depend on an...
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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis: US vs. Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...
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Automatic stabilizers, economic crisis and income distribution in Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010
This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country micro simulation model to analyse how shocks on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269797
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Documentation IZAΨMOD: The IZA policy sImulation mODel
Peichl, Andreas; Schneider, Hilmar; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2010
uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269886