Blar i Statistics Norway's Open Research Repository (SNORRe) på emneord "Tax reforms"
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Can a carbon permit system reduce Spanish unemployment?
(Discussion Papers;No. 410, Working paper, 2005)Abstract: This paper addresses the frequently articulated worry for the unemployment impacts of abating CO2 emissions. The Spanish economy is ridden by unemployment rates well above the EU average. At the same time the ... -
Designing an electricity tax system in presence of international regulations and multiple public goals : an empirical assessment
(Discussion Papers;No. 555, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: The European competition rules restrict governments’ opportunity to differentiate terms of energy accessibility among firms and industries. This easily runs counter with regional and industrial goals of national ... -
Do more equal slices shrink the cake? An empirical investigation of tax-transfer reform proposals in Italy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004)A crucial issue in efficiency-equality evaluations of tax reforms resides in the possibility that the level as well as the distribution of welfare may change, where the household-specific measures of welfare capture the ... -
Evaluating alternative basic income mechanisms : a simulation for European countries
(Discussion Papers; 578, Working paper, 2009)We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in five European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Norway, Portugal and United Kingdom. ... -
Income responses to tax changes : evidence from the Norwegian tax reform
(Discussion Papers;No. 260, Working paper, 1999)Several studies, conducted on U.S. data, have found rather strong income responses to changes in marginal tax rates, when treating tax reforms as "natural experiments" and applying the differences-of-differences estimator ... -
The marginal cost of funds in the presence of external effects
(Discussion Paper;No. 99, Working paper, 1993-08)The Marginal Cost of Funds (MCF) is useful in cost-benefit and tax reform analysis. This paper presents general equilibrium estimates of the MCF in an economy with environmental external effects. Environmental externalities ... -
Simulating labor supply behavior when workers have preferences for job opportunities and face nonlinear budget constraints
(Discussion Papers;No. 488, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: This paper analyzes the properties of a particular sectoral labor supply model developed in Dagsvik and Strøm (2006). The model is estimated on labor supply data for married women in Norway 1994. In this model, ... -
Tax reform, sector-specific labor supply and welfare effects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)This paper focuses in particular on the 1992 tax reform in Norway. In this reform the top marginal tax rates were cut considerably. We find that the impact on overall labor supply is rather modest, but these modest changes ... -
The Norwegian tax reform : distributional effects and the high-income response
(Discussion Papers;No. 207, Working paper, 1997)Are we better or worse off after the Norwegian tax reform of 1992 and how has the reform influenced the income sizes and the distribution of total income? This question denotes our twofold analysis in this paper. We first ...