Arbeitspapier
Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities exploiting 6,800 tax changes for identication. Using event study designs and differences-in-differences models, we find that workers bear about half of the total tax burden. Administrative linked employer-employee data allow us to estimate heterogeneous firm and worker effects. Our findings highlight the importace of labor market institutions and profit-shifting opportunities for the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. Moreover, we show that low-skilled, young and female employees bear a larger share of the tax burden. This has important distributive implications.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 241
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: General
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
- Thema
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business taxation
incidence
administrative data
local taxation
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Fuest, Clemens
Peichl, Andreas
Siegloch, Sebastian
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
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Munich
- (wann)
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2017
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Fuest, Clemens
- Peichl, Andreas
- Siegloch, Sebastian
- ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Entstanden
- 2017