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We study the link between tax progressivity and top income shares. Using variation from large-scale Western tax reforms in the 1980s and 1990s and the novel synthetic control method, we find large and lasting boosting impacts on top income shares from the progressivity reductions. Effects are...
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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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required for making the reform politically viable. However, taxation is distortionary. Then, it is unclear that compensatory …. Transfers have to be financed by proportional taxation on firm's revenues or, equivalently, labor income. Labor supply is … elastic to net post-tax real wages, and hence reduced by taxation. In a setting where preferences are isoelastic, deregulation …
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net wage. This would counteract the distortion of labor supply arising from wage taxation. Full privatization is never …
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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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The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more extensive reform programs. We argue that the heart of...
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We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be …
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This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals …
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This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885183
Given its significance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the …
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