Arbeitspapier
Second-best Properties of Implicit Social Security Taxes: Theory and Empirical Evidence
This paper investigates the inter-temporal structure of implicit taxes that arise in unfunded pension schemes. We demonstrate that these tax rates are declining over the life cycle. Using German micro-data for men and married women we estimate periodic wage elasticities of labour supply in order to check the second-best properties of this timing of tax rates. An efficient taxation would require to decrease the excessive implicit taxes for married women and to implement an inversely J-shaped tax profile for male workers. This result contradicts the standard proposal to smooth the profile of implicit tax rates across the individual life cycle
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 743
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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public pensions
labour supply
optimal taxation
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Fenge, Robert
Uebelmesser, Silke
Werding, Martin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2002
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Fenge, Robert
- Uebelmesser, Silke
- Werding, Martin
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2002