I estimate permanent and transitory tax-price and income elasticity of charitable giving in Germany using a rich panel … data of tax return for the years 2001-2006. Income tax reforms were implemented in 2004 and 2005. The results suggest that … the permanent tax-price elasticity varies significantly by income class, ranging from -0.2 for low incomes to -1.6 for …

This paper studies optimal unemployment benefit levels and optimal proportional income tax rates over the business … because the UI system can be used to smooth consumption across different economic states. However, high benefits increase … unemployment. An alternative way to redistribute income is to vary tax rates over the business cycle. In this paper, we develop an …

treatment of families by the aggregate tax and transfer system can be regarded as "fair", we compare the equivalent incomes of … evidence for a privileged treatment of families with children and a low market income due to the earned income tax credit (EIC …), the child tax credit and the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP). If employment taxes are interpreted as …

benefits. We find that part-time work while receiving unemployment benefits is strongly concentrated in the service and social … implementation of earnings disregards in unemployment benefits and housing allowances, which allowed individuals to earn up to 300 … euros per month without reductions in their benefits. Using variation in the impact of the reforms on incentives between …

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an …

An essential difference between the design of the Swedish and the US in-work tax credit systems relates to their … functional forms. Where the US earned income tax credit (EITC) is phased out and favours low and medium earnings, the Swedish … system is not phased out and offers 17 and 7 per cent tax credit for low and medium low incomes and a lump-sum tax deduction …