Radulescu, Doina Maria; Egger, Peter; Rees, Ray (2014). The Determinants of Personal Income Tax Progressivity Around the Globe (Submitted)
Full text not available from this repository.This paper utilizes a novel database collected by the authors to document features of the progressivity of personal income tax systems across 209 countries for the years 1980-2009. We measure progressivity in several ways. First, we associate it with the increase in effective average (marginal) tax rates between a wage of zero and ten times the average wage in a country. Second, we consider the curvature of the tax schedule expressed as the difference between the effective average (marginal) tax schedule from a wage of zero to ten times the average wage and a linear average tax schedule and, alternatively, the diference between the effective average (marginal) tax schedule from the minimum positive taxable income, to ten times the average wage as opposed to a linear average tax schedule. Moreover, the paper assesses patterns regarding the conditional correlation of country-specifc tax progressivity measures with a host of economic and political country-specific characteristics and find the labor supply elasticity and the income replacement rates for the unemployed to be key determinants of progressivity around the globe, in line with economic theory.
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Working Paper |
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Division/Institute: |
11 Centers of Competence > KPM Center for Public Management |
UniBE Contributor: |
Radulescu, Doina Maria |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 350 Public administration & military science |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
BORIS Import |
Date Deposited: |
25 Sep 2014 16:26 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:37 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/58648 |
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