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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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9606

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
business tax
wage incidence
administrative data
local taxation

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Fuest, Clemens
Peichl, Andreas
Siegloch, Sebastian
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2015

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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

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