Personal Income , Taxation , Economic Integration , Labor Mobility
Abstract:
In this paper, I estimate the effect of increasing labor mobility on personal income
tax schedules. I combine rich data on effective personal income tax levels in a panel of
OECD countries for the period 1986-2005 with a new Index of Potential Labor Mobility.
This index allows to tackle issues of reverse causality and potentially confounding effects
from strategic competition. Estimates show that increasing labor mobility accounts for a
considerable part of lower tax burdens. Furthermore, the reduction is found to be constant across brackets of taxable income.
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