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This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax systems as a means to finance unemployment benefits: a...
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This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an international economy with a relatively small home country and a large foreign country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax systems as a means to finance unemployment benefits: a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404622
Motivated by the observation that access to evasion opportunities is distributed heterogeneously across the labor market, this paper examines the extent to which labor supply elasticities with respect to tax rates depend on such evasion opportunities. We first discuss the channels through which...
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under individual and joint income taxation systems. In order to eliminate problems of endogenous intra-couple time use … decisions, we exogenously varied not only the taxation system but also the intra-couple roles of primary and secondary earners … even confirmed by a shift to a more egalitarian allocation when individual taxation is applied. However, one result …
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The standard labor-supply literature typically assumes that the labor supply response to wage increases is the same as that for equivalent wage decreases. However, evidence from the behavioral-economics literature suggests that people are loss averse and thus perceive losses differently than...
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The standard labor-supply literature typically assumes that the labor supply response to wage increases is the same as that for equivalent wage decreases. However, evidence from the behavioral-economics literature suggests that people are loss averse and thus perceive losses differently than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969586
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