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
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3974
- Klassifikation
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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
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labor income
payroll tax
income tax
Lohnsummensteuer
Einkommensteuer
Steuertarif
Steuerwirkung
Einkommen
Arbeitsangebot
Schätzung
Frankreich
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Lehmann, Etienne
Marical, François
Rioux, Laurence
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Lehmann, Etienne
- Marical, François
- Rioux, Laurence
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2012