Arbeitspapier
Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages?
This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities. Administrative linked employer-employee data allows estimating heterogeneous worker and firm effects. We set up a general theoretical framework showing that corporate taxes can have a negative effect on wages in various labor market models. Using an event study design, we test the predictions of the theory. Our results indicate that workers bear about 40% of the total tax burden. Empirically, we confirm the importance of both labor market institutions and profit shifting possibilities for the incidence of corporate taxes on wages.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9606
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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business tax
wage incidence
administrative data
local taxation
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Fuest, Clemens
Peichl, Andreas
Siegloch, Sebastian
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
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2015
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Fuest, Clemens
- Peichl, Andreas
- Siegloch, Sebastian
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2015