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the system into one of joint taxation with the highest marginal rates on low and average wage two-earner families. Under …
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Given its signiÖcance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the literature …
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We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 19 OECD countries. We quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes, as well as male and female wages, to the international differences...
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system of taxation, setting a proportional tax rate on married females equal to 4% (8%) increases output and married female …
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This paper studies the effects of labour income taxation on growth in an OLG model where both formal schooling and … taxation on growth. …
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We evaluate reforms to the U.S. tax system in a dynamic setup with heterogeneous married and single households, and with an operative extensive margin in labour supply. We restrict our model with observations on gender and skill premia, labour force participation of married females across skill...
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With many countries considering the adoption of a system of earned income tax credits, it is useful to analyze how different types of credits affect labor supply and earnings. This paper focuses on a 1999 reform to the UK tax credit system, which increased the value of the credit and reduced the...
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specification of household time use widens the set of cases in which individual taxation is welfare-superior to joint taxation. …
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taxation is concerned, the most substantive recommendation of the Mirrlees Review is a move toward a system of consumption or … expenditure taxation, by exempting the "normal return to saving and taxing only "excess returns on the same tax schedule as labour … direction for reform is towards more progressive taxation of both labour earnings and capital income, although not necessarily …
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Do income taxes levied at a state or regional level affect the after-tax distribution of income? Or do workers merely move between regions, causing pre-tax wages to adjust? This question is relevant both in across states in the United States, and across countries within the European Union. Using...
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