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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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Given its significance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the …
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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
Most empirical studies of 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 … changes on the intrahousehold allocation of income. We also simulate the consequences of a policy change in the tax system. We …
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We build a general equilibrium model in which both illegal immigration and the size of the informal sector are endogenously determined. In this framework, we show that indirect policy measures such as tax reduction and detection of informal activities can be used as substitutes for border...
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Previous reviews of static labor supply estimations concentrate mainly on the evidence from the 1980s and 1990s, Anglo-Saxon countries and early generations of labor supply modeling. This paper provides a fresh characterization of steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe and the...
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This paper analyzes the consequences of the taxation of temporary jobs recently introduced in several European … search and matching model on French data shows that the taxation of temporary jobs does not reach its objectives: it reduces …
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in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes to the international differences in hours worked in the data … full nonlinearities of labor income tax codes, including the tax treatment of married couples, into account is crucial for …
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best health-care outcomes in the world at a cost that is the lowest amongst high income countries. In this paper we show …, as well as its effect on low, middle and high income individuals. …
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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 … reduced overall progressivity contributed less. Searching for mechanisms, real income responses as measured by growth in …
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