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Labor supply and taxation /

This volume presents Richard Blundell's outstanding research on the modern economic analysis of labour markets and public policy reforms, which has enhanced greatly our understanding of how individuals' behaviour on the labour market responds to taxation and social policy influence. It bri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blundell, Richard (Author)
Corporate Author: IZA (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit) (associated with work.)
Other Authors: Peichl, Andreas (Editor), Zimmermann, Klaus F. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:IZA prize in labor economics series.
Subjects:
Labor supply.
Taxation.
Employment (Economic theory)
Taxes
Employment
Marché du travail.
Impôt.
Emploi.
employing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Labor supply
Taxation
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; IZA Prize in Labor Economics Series; Labor Supply and Taxation ; Copyright ; Award Statement of the IZA Prize Committee ; Acknowledgements; Contents; Part I. Introduction by the Editors: Taxation and Labor Supply
  • Revisiting the Contributions by Richard Blundell ; Part II. Overview ; Introduction ; 1. Tax Policy Reform: The Role of Empirical Evidence ; 1.1. Introduction ; 1.2. Key Margins of Adjustment
  • 1.3. Effective Tax Rates 1.4. The Importance of Information and Complexity ; 1.5. Evidence on the Size of Responses to Tax Reform ; 1.5.1. Alternative Approaches to Measuring the Size of Responses ; 1.5.2. Randomized Control Trials ; 1.5.3. Structural Models
  • 1.5.4. Dynamics and Frictions? 1.6. Implications from Theory for Tax Design ; 1.6.1. Optimal Design for Low-Income Workers ; 1.6.2. Tax Rates at the Top ; 1.7. Work Incentives, Redistribution and Base-Broadening Reforms ; 1.8. Summary and Conclusions
  • 2. Labour Supply and the Extensive Margin 2.1. Bounding Changes at the Extensive and Intensive Margins ; 2.2. Decomposing Total Hours Worked ; 2.3. Conclusions ; Part III. Conceptual Contributions to Labor Supply Modelling ; Introduction; 3. Modelling the Joint Determination of Household Labor Supplies and Commodity Demands
  • 3.1. Specification of the model 3.2. Econometric Analysis ; 3.3. Empirical Results ; 3.4. Conclusions ; 4. A Life-Cycle Consistent Empirical Model of Family Labor Supply Using Cross-Section Data ; 4.1. Introduction ; 4.2. Two-stage Budgeting and .-constant Frisch Demands