Employment and Taxes
By Stephen Nickell. Social Science Research Network, 2003
182 citations recorded by the source corpus.
This paper considers the impact of taxation policy on market work. On the basis of the evidence, we find that a 10 percentage point rise in the tax wedge will reduce overall labour input provided via the market by around 2 per cent of the population of working age. The tax wedge is the sum of the payroll, income and consumption tax rates. This only explains a minority of the market work differentials across countries. Much of the remainder is probably down to the differences in the social security systems supporting the unemployed, the sick and disabled and the early retired.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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Citations in the corpus
- Are Micro and Macro Labor Supply Elasticities Consistent? A Review of Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margins (2011, methodology): “On the extensive margin, Steven Nickell (2003) and Davis and Henrekson (2005) find steady-state elasticities of 0.14 on average by comparing employment rates across countries.”
- Trade, Technology and Productivity: A Study of Brazilian Manufacturers 1986-1998 (2004, unknown): “Most importantly, it is a maintained hypothesis of the present and many earlier studies that the firms’ competitive environment and trade barriers in particular influence TFP -relevant efforts (Nickell 1996, Djankov and Hoekman 2000, Pavcnik 2002). For the first time, the present study is able to as”
- Bounds on Elasticities with Optimization Frictions: A Synthesis of Micro and Macro Evidence on Labor Supply (2012, background): “32 elasticity from the three macroeconomic studies in Table II (Nickell 2003, Prescott 2004, Davis and Henrekson 2005) is 0.17.”
- Do Cognitive Test Scores Explain Higher U.S. Wage Inequality? (2005, unknown): “Nickell and Layard (1999) in fact make such an argument with respect to the higher returns to education observed in some countries.”
- Why do Europeans Work so Little (2009, unknown): “Finally, Nickell (2003) concentrates on empirical findings concerning the effects of taxes and labor market institutions on the labor supply.”