Arbeitspapier
Taxation and the Long Run Allocation of Labor: Theory and Danish Evidence
Inspired by Hayek (1945), we study the distortionary effects of taxation on labor mobility and the long run allocation of labor across different profitable opportunities. These effects are not well detected by the methods applied in the large public finance literature estimating the elasticity of taxable income and quantifying the efficiency loss from taxation. Our analysis builds on a standard search theoretic framework where workers are continually seeking better paid jobs, but are also fired from time to time because of economic development and productivity shocks. We incorporate non-linear taxation into this setting and estimate the structural parameters of the model using employer-employee register based data for the full Danish population of workers and workplaces for the years 2004-2006. Our results indicate that along the intensive margin the Danish taxation generates an overall efficiency loss corresponding to a 12 percent reduction in total income. It is possible to reap 4/5 of this potential efficiency gain by going from a high-tax Scandinavian system to a level of taxation in line with low-tax OECD countries such as the United States. The tax-responsiveness of labor mobility and allocation corresponds to an elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate in the range 0.15-0.35.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8246
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
- Thema
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tax distortions
labor mobility
elasticity of taxable income
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kreiner, Claus Thustrup
Munch, Jakob R.
Whitta-Jacobsen, Hans Jørgen
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2014
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kreiner, Claus Thustrup
- Munch, Jakob R.
- Whitta-Jacobsen, Hans Jørgen
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2014
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