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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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tax burdens, and b) this relation is stronger for the upper-middle range of the income distribution. …
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This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...
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This paper estimates the effect of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Our treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher's (2004) seminal cross-country study using panel methods to estimate minimum wage effects among teenagers and young adults. Apart from the longer time...
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In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...
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In this paper, we analyze the impact of a tax policy change on social welfare by using jointly a collective model of … unobserved dimensions related to effort or intensity at work. We simulate an extended version of the British Working Family Tax …
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work is that in order to estimate the impact of tax reform and be able to generalise results, a structural approach that … takes account of many of these issues is desirable. We then discuss the new Tax Responsiveness literature which uses the … response of taxable income to the marginal tax rate as a summary statistic of the behavioural response to taxation. Underlying …
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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 …
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induced by unemployment insurance. The model features a detailed specification of the tax and transfer system, including … of revenue neutral tax and transfer reforms also favors a reduction in the entitlement period. …
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This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an …
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