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The Swedish Earned Income Tax Credit: Did It Increase Employment?

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  • Karin Edmark
  • Che-Yuan Liang
  • Eva Mörk
  • Hakan Selin

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This paper analyzes the extensive-margin labor-supply effects of a Swedish earned income tax credit introduced in 2007. The reform was one of the government's flagship reforms to boost employment, but its actual effects have been widely debated. We exploit the fact that the size of the tax credit is a function of the municipality of residence and income if working, which yields two sources of quasi-experimental variation. The identifying variation, however, turns out to be small and potentially endogenous, which means that the question of whether the reform has delivered the hoped-for effects cannot be credibly answered.

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  • Karin Edmark & Che-Yuan Liang & Eva Mörk & Hakan Selin, 2016. "The Swedish Earned Income Tax Credit: Did It Increase Employment?," FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 72(4), pages 475-503, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:mhr:finarc:urn:sici:0015-2218(201612)72:4_475:tseitc_2.0.tx_2-a
    DOI: 10.1628/001522108X14764450192108
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    Keywords

    labor supply; labor-force participation; tax incentives;
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    JEL classification:

    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • H24 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies

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