Data and code for: Intertemporal Labor Supply Substitution? Evidence from the Swiss Income Tax Holidays
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Michael Siegenthaler, KOF ETH Zurich; Isabel Martinez, KOF ETH Zurich; Emmanuel Saez, UC Berkeley
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Project Citation:
Siegenthaler, Michael, Martinez, Isabel , and Saez, Emmanuel. Data and code for: Intertemporal Labor Supply Substitution? Evidence from the Swiss Income Tax Holidays. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-06-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/E120797V2
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This paper estimates intertemporal labor supply responses to two-year long income tax holidays staggered across Swiss cantons. Cantons shifted from an income tax system based on the previous two years' income to a standard annual pay as you earn system, leaving two years of income untaxed. We find significant but quantitatively very small responses of wage earnings with an inter-temporal elasticity of .025 overall. High wage income earners and especially the self-employed display larger responses with elasticities around .1 and .25 respectively, most likely driven by tax avoidance. We find no effects along the extensive margin at all.
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E65 Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
E65 Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
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