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from a joint to an individual taxation system in France. We show that the net-of-tax relative earning potential of the wife … is a significant determinant of intrahousehold negotiation but with very low elasticity. Consequently, the labor supply …
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We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven …
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and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences …
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The taxation of bequests can have a positive impact on the labor supply of heirs through wealth effects. This leads to …
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We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...
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This paper studies the design of couples' income taxation. Consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple are …
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This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...
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In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed in the nineties by Oswald, Clark, Blanchflower and others with the older income evaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in the seventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...
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Several recent studies show that the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is not a sufficient statistic for the welfare … costs of taxation due to factors such as taxbase shifting. This paper provides an additional argument demonstrating the non … indicate an overall ETI between 0.35 and 0.68 and an elasticity of deductions with respect to the net-of-tax rate between -0 …
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This paper estimates ordered logit and probit regression models for bank ratings which also include a country index to capture country-specific variation. The empirical findings provide support to the hypothesis that the individual international bank ratings assigned by Fitch Ratings are...
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