Looks at the pre- and post-tax wage distribution of prime age males in six countries, focusing on Australia. Analysis includes an examination of the impact of income taxes and employer and employee contributions on the wage distribution.

This paper examines the level and distribution of equivalent after tax, after transfer money income in Canada, the USA, the UK, Germany and Sweden using micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study from 1969/70 to 1994/95. It concentrates on inequality within and between birth cohorts. At any...

Using LIS data, this paper provides empirical evidence of how past tax/transfer policies in UK, US and Sweden have shaped both the intrapersonal and the intergenerational redistributive profiles. Measuring intrapersonal effects is important in order to disentangle life cycle inequalities and...

The paper analyses the financial structure of German inward FDI. From a tax perspective, intra-company loans granted by the parent should be all the more strongly preferred over equity the lower the tax rate of the parent and the higher the tax rate of the German affiliate. From our study of a...

This paper explores the properties of alternative measures of the taxation of income from capital, by applying them to data for the UK over the last thirty years. We consider several types of measures, reflecting both average and marginal rates.

In this paper we present a computer-based model (so-called European Tax Analyzer) for the international computation and comparison of company tax burdens. The methodology follows the forward-looking concepts for the measurement of effective average tax rates (EATR) on the basis of a model-firm....

Die Messung der effektiven Steuerbelastung rentabler Investitionen ist mit zahlreichen methodischen Problemen verbunden. Diese lassen sich zum Teil mit einem auf Devereux und Griffith zurückgehenden Modell überwinden. Basierend auf ihrem Ansatz wird eine Maßgröße für die effektive...

Der folgende Beitrag zeigt anhand der Besteuerungswirkungen, die in einem zweistufigen kapitalistischen Unternehmensaufbau unter Einbeziehung der Anteilseigner auftreten, gegenwärtige Steuerbelastungsunterschiede bei nationalen und grenzüberschreitenden Investitionen von im europäischen...

A model is presented for simulating the tax burden on highly skilled manpower. The effective average tax rate, defined as the relative wedge between employment costs and disposable income, is computed. Income and payroll taxes and social security contributions not yielding an equivalent benefit...