Current demographic changes require greater participation of people aged 50 or older in the labour market. Previous research shows that the chances of returning to employment decrease with the length of the unemployment period. In the case of older people who have not reached the statutory...

Bunching estimators were developed and extended by Saez (2010), Chetty et al. (2011) and Kleven and Waseem (2013). Using this method one can get an estimate of the taxable income elasticity from the bunching pattern around a kink point. The bunching estimator has become popular, with a large...

Using the administrative tax return database, we document the Canadian income and tax statistics in 2000 and in 2016 and compare them with those of the US. Also, we estimate parametric tax specifications used in applied macroeconomic and public finance studies. Although these specifications are,...