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Shifting taxes from labor to consumption : efficient, but regressive?
Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2013
compensated by a revenue-neutral reduction in income-related taxes. Based on a dual data base and a microsimulation model of labor … on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …
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The impact of short- and long-term participation tax rates on labor supply
Bartels, Charlotte; Pestel, Nico - 2015
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period...
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