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Pro-poor tax reforms, with an application to Mexico
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Makdissi, Paul; Araar, Abdelkrim - 2009
Mexico's indirect tax system. This leads to the identification of several possible pro-poor tax reforms in that country. It …
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International job search: Mexicans in and out of the US
Rendón, Sílvio; Cuecuecha, Alfredo - 2007
It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by … international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model of job search, savings and migration to show that job … find that migration practically disappears if Mexico has American arrival rates while employed. Doubling migration costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268921
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Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies : From Households to Individuals
Bargain, Olivier - 2004
In this paper, we analyze the impact of a tax policy change on social welfare by using jointly a collective model of household labor supply and a microsimulation program of the French taxbenefit system. The collective approach allows studying the intrahousehold distribution so that for the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262173
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Is the Collective Model of Labor Supply Useful for Tax Policy Analysis? : A Simulation Exercise
Bargain, Olivier; Moreau, Nicolas - 2005
The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the withinhousehold distributional effect of tax-benefit policies. We simulate this effect in the framework of a collective model of labor supply when shifting from a joint to an individual taxation system in France....
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Cooperative Models in Action : Simulation of a Nash-Bargaining Model of Household Labor Supply with Taxation
Bargain, Olivier; Moreau, Nicolas - 2005
Several theoretical contributions, starting with McElroy and Horney (1981) and Manser and Brown (1980), have suggested to model household behavior as a Nash-bargaining game. Since then, very few attempts have been made to operationalize cooperative models of household labor supply for policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262203
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Estimating income responses to tax changes: a dynamic panel data approach
Holmlund, Bertil; Söderström, Martin - 2007
Recent research on the behavioral effects of income taxes has to a large extent focused on the elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate, i.e., one minus the marginal tax rate. We offer new evidence on this matter by making use of a large panel of Swedish tax payers over...
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Measuring richness and poverty: a micro data application to Europe and Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo; Scheicher, Christoph - 2008
In this paper, we define a new class of richness measures. In contrast to the often used headcount, these new measures are sensitive to changes in rich persons' income and therefore allow for a more sophisticated analysis of richness. We demonstrate the application of these new measures to...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269596
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Tax reform in Georgia and the size of the shadow economy
Torosyan, Karine; Filer, Randall Keith - 2012
This paper applies three different methods widely used in the literature to track changes in shadow economic activity in Georgia following a drastic tax reform in 2005. The first method is a currency demand approach based on macro level data. The second and third methods rely on micro data from...
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Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob - 2000
income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch … households. The survey contains rich information on house-hold wealth, pension rights and savings attitudes. A result of the …
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