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The link between taxes and occupational choices is central for understanding the welfare impacts of income taxes. Just as taxes distort the labor-leisure decision, they also distort the wage-amenity decision. Yet, there have been few studies on the full response along this margin. When tax rates increase, workers favor jobs with lower wages and more amenities. The authors introduce a two-step methodology which uses compensating differentials to characterize the tax elasticity of occupational choice. They estimate a significant compensated elasticity of 0.03, implying that a 10% increase in the net-of-tax rate causes workers to change to a 0.3% higher wage job.

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Paper provided by RAND Corporation Publications Department in its series Working Papers with number 705-1.

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Length: 37 pages
Date of creation: Dec 2010
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Handle: RePEc:ran:wpaper:705-1

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Keywords: income taxes; occupational choice; compensating differentials;

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• H24 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
• H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household
• J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

• NEP-ALL-2011-02-12 (All new papers)
• NEP-LAB-2011-02-12 (Labour Economics)
• NEP-PBE-2011-02-12 (Public Economics)

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