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In-Work Benefit, Labor Supply and Optimal Labor Income Taxation : The Fixed Cost of Living and Its Applications

Luo, Jianbo - 2019

This applied theoretical paper finds that in-work benefits recipients tend to increase labor income, regardless of the benefits' structure. A theory, the fixed cost of living, is used to explain this finding. Several applications of this theory are given. First, a critical review shows why the...

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Taxes, Wages and Working Hours

Ericson, Peter - 2011

This paper presents estimates of individuals' responses in hourly wages to changes in marginal tax rates. Estimates based on register panel data of Swedish households covering the period 1992 to 2007 produce significant but relatively small net-of-tax rate elasticities. The results vary with...

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Taxes, wages and working hours

Ericson, Peter; Flood, Lennart - 2011

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Income taxes, gross hourly wages, and the anatomy of behavioral responses : evidence from a Danish tax reform

Sumiya, Kazuhiko; Bagger, Jesper - 2022

This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of income taxes on gross hourly wages by utilizing administrative data and a tax reform in Denmark. The reform introduced joint taxation to a middle tax bracket, bringing large changes to the tax system facing married couples. Using...

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Taxes and the Labor Supply of the Stars

Keniston, Daniel; Peralta, Abigail Allison M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Do high taxes cause superstars to work less? We test this hypothesis using complete data on Hollywood movie stars' labor supply from 1927 to 2014. Changes to marginal tax rates in high tax brackets have no significant effect on the number of films a movie star makes each year. However, in years...

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Earnings responses to even higher taxes

Miao, Dingquan; Selin, Håkan; Söderström, Martin - 2022

We exploit a recent Swedish tax reform, implying higher marginal tax rates for the top 5% of the earnings distribution, to learn about earnings responses in an economy where taxes already are high. Using a simple and graphical cross sectional method, we estimate earnings elasticities in the...

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The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses after Job Displacement

Illing, Hannah; Schmieder, Johannes; Trenkle, Simon - 2021

Existing research has shown that job displacement leads to large and persistent earnings losses for men, but evidence for women is scarce. Using administrative data from Germany, we apply an event study design in combination with propensity score matching and a reweighting technique to directly...

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The determinants of reservation wages in Germany : does a motivation gap exist?

Christensen, Björn - 2001

characteristics of the unemployed are the most important determinants of reservation wages. In contrast neither unemployment duration … nor different kinds of unemployment benefits influence reservation wages. Hence the findings corroborate the hypothesis …

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Reservation wages, offered wages, and unemployment duration : new empirical evidence

Christensen, Björn - 2002

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …

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The Determinants of Reservation Wages in Germany Does a Motivation Gap Exist?

Christensen, Björn - 2001

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