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Discreteness and the Welfare Cost of Labour Supply Tax Distortions

Discreteness and the Welfare Cost of Labour Supply Tax Distortions. Keshab Bhattarai University of Hull and John Whalley Universities of Warwick and Western Ontario, and NBER. Conclusions.

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Discreteness and the Welfare Cost of Labour Supply Tax Distortions

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  1. Discreteness and the Welfare Cost of Labour Supply Tax Distortions Keshab Bhattarai University of Hull and John Whalley Universities of Warwick and Western Ontario, and NBER

  2. Conclusions • This paper discusses the influence of discrete labour supply (or leisure) choice for estimates of the welfare costs of taxes on labour supply, issues which appear to be little discussed in the literature. • We show numerically that aggregate observationally equivalent discrete and continuous models of labour supply behaviour can give substantially different estimates of the welfare cost of equivalent taxes. Welfare costs of tax distortions are much lower when households face discrete choices of working hours in the labour market. • discrete choice matters, and needs further consideration in the evaluation of the costs of taxes.

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