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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...

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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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The political economy of conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2009

Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid economic, social or military arguments in favor of the draft can be put forward, the question emerges why societies choose to rely on it. In this survey we explain the political...

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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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Anatomy of policy complementarities

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

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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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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