Tax Policy and Labor Market Performance

Series Foreword vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction and Summary xi I Taxation and Labor Markets: The Broader Perspective 1(144) 1 Tax Policy and Labor Market Performance 3(72) A. Lans Bovenberg 2 Work and Taxes 75(22) Stephen Nickell 3 Do Social Policies Harm Employment and Growth? Second-best Effects of Taxes and Benefits on Employment 97(48) Frederick van der Ploeg II Taxation, Labor Supply, and Wage Formation 145(118) 4 Welfare Effects of Tax Reform and Labor Supply at the Intensive and Extensive Margins 147(40) Nada Eissa, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, and Claus Thustrup Kreiner 5 The Hours of Work Response of Married Couples: Taxes and the Earned Income Tax Credit 187(42) Nada Eissa and Hilary Hoynes 6 Progressive Taxation and Wages: Microevidence 229(34) Torben Trans S ren Arnberg, and Anders Holm III Taxation and the Underground Economy 263(50) 7 Insiders, Outsiders, and the Underground Economy 265(18) Dan Anderberg 8 Wages, Unemployment, and the Underground Economy 283(30) Ann-Sofie Kolm and Birthe Larsen Contributors 313(2) Index 315