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Taxing the Poor : Income Averaging Reconsidered
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010
This Article presents an original empirical analysis demonstrating that low-income families experience far greater income fluctuations than higher-income families and, as a result, taxation of annual income disproportionately burdens low-income families. The author proposes two simple income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194263
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The Health Wedge and Labor Market Inequality
Finkelstein, Amy; McQuillan, Casey C.; Zidar, Owen M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Over half of the U.S. population receives health insurance through an employer, with employer premium contributions creating a flat "head tax" per worker, independent of their earnings. This paper develops and calibrates a stylized model of the labor market to explore how this uniquely American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014248009
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The Health Wedge and Labor Market Inequality
Finkelstein, Amy; McQuillan, Casey; Zidar, Owen; Zwick, Eric - 2023
Over half of the U.S. population receives health insurance through an employer, with employer premium contributions creating a flat "head tax" per worker, independent of their earnings. This paper develops and calibrates a stylized model of the labor market to explore how this uniquely American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345193
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The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market
Terrell, Katherine; Gindling, T. H. - 2004
This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings … Costa Rica. This country?s large uncovered sector and complex minimum wage policy, which has for decades set numerous wages … minimum wages. We find that legal minimum wages have a significant positive effect on the wages of workers in the covered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261907
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Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization
Terrell, Katherine; Gindling, T. H. - 2004
by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the … wages in the 1980s and 1990s acted as a countervailing force to the unequalizing effect of globalization. Using annual data … on workers from the 1987-1997 household surveys, it is shown that changes in the legal minimum wages did indeed have an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261908
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The Impact of a Minimum Wage Change on the Distribution of Wages and Household Income
Redmond, Paul - 2020
the distribution of hourly wages and household income. Wage inequality, measured by the ratio of wages in the 90th and 10 …. For young workers, aged under 25, the effects were far greater, with a 24 percent reduction in the ratio of wages in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843157
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Coordination, Inclusiveness and Wage Inequality between Median and Bottom Income Workers
Vlandas, Tim - 2016
What explains cross-national variation in wage inequality? Research in comparative political economy stresses the importance of the welfare state and wage coordination in reducing not only disposable income inequality but also gross earnings inequality. However, the cross-national variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992707
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Wage inequality in Germany after the minimum wage introduction
Bossler, Mario; Schank, Thorsten - 2020
We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178776
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Wage inequality in Germany after the minimum wage introduction
Bossler, Mario; Schank, Thorsten - 2020
While monthly wage inequality in Germany continued to increase strongly until 2010, it recently returned to the level of the year 2000. We assess the role of the national minimum wage introduced in 2015. Unconditional quantile regressions combined with difference-indifferences show significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424962
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Two stories of wage dynamics in Latin America : different policies, different outcomes
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Carvajal-Osorio, Luis C. - 2018
suggest that Bolivia, which has implemented left-wing economic policies, has experienced a general increase in wages … to changes in formal sector wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872217