Arbeitspapier

Labor income responds differently to income-tax and payroll-tax reforms

We estimate the responses of gross labor income with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over the period 2003-2006. We exploit a series of reforms to the income-tax and payroll-tax schedules affecting individuals who earn less than twice the minimum wage. Our estimate for the elasticity of gross labor income with respect to the marginal net-of-income-tax rate is around 0.2, while we find no response to the marginal net-of-payroll-tax rate. The elasticity with respect to the average net-of-tax rate is not significant for the income-tax schedule, while it is close to -1 for the payroll-tax schedule. A plausible explanation is the existence of significant labor supply responses to the income-tax schedule, combined with sticky posted wages (i.e., the gross labor income minus payroll taxes divided by hours worked). Finally, the effect of the net-of-income-tax rate seems to be driven by participation decisions, in particular those of married women.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3974

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy
Thema
labor income
payroll tax
income tax
Lohnsummensteuer
Einkommensteuer
Steuertarif
Steuerwirkung
Einkommen
Arbeitsangebot
Schätzung
Frankreich

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Lehmann, Etienne
Marical, François
Rioux, Laurence
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2012

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Lehmann, Etienne
  • Marical, François
  • Rioux, Laurence
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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