We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984 - 2010. Exploiting the random…
We study fair and effcient tax-benefit schemes based on income and non-income factors under partial control. Partial control means that each factor is a specific mixture of unobserved ability (randomly drawn by…
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to disentangle the policy effect from changing market incomes. Over the period 1979-2007, the…
This paper examines the relationship between 'tax morale' and tax policy. Using a unique cross-country data set based on the World Values Survey and the World Tax Indicators, we nd that income groups with…