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Business Taxation and Wages: Evidence from Individual Panel Data

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  • Thomas K. Bauer

    () (University of Bochum/ RWI Essen)

  • Tanja Kasten

    () (RWI Essen)

  • Lars-H. Siemers

    () (University of Siegen)

Abstract

Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment heterogeneity, that drive the respective results. Using a large administrative panel data set, we exploit the regional variation of the German business income taxation to address these issues. Our results suggest an elasticity of wages with respect to business taxes that ranges between 0.28 to 0.46, once we control for invariant unobserved regional and individual characteristics. Workers with low bargaining power, e.g., low-skilled, are affected most from business tax shifting, indicating that business-tax incidence involves distributional effects. Finally, we find evidence for an asymmetric tax incidence.

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Paper provided by Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung) in its series MAGKS Papers on Economics with number 201233.

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Length: 50 pages
Date of creation: 2012
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Publication status: Forthcoming in
Handle: RePEc:mar:magkse:201233

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Keywords: tax incidence  prot taxation  wages  asymmetric eects;

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  1. Clemens Fuest & Andreas Peichl & Sebastian Siegloch, 2012. "Which Workers Bear the Burden of Corporate Taxation and Which Firms Can Pass It On? Micro Evidence from Germany," Working Papers 1216, Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation.

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