{"title":"Scarred for Life? Recession Experiences, Beliefs and the State","authors":"Zsoka Koczan, Alexander Plekhanov","doi":"10.1007/s10797-023-09793-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-023-09793-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper investigates ways in which major recessions have impacted individuals’ views about the role of the state in the economy across the world. We build on three complementary sources of data. We analyse experiences during the COVID-19 crisis using a survey of more than 39,000 adults across 14 economies as well as during the global financial crisis using a representative survey covering 34 economies. Exploiting variation across individual experiences during these crises, we find that support for state ownership and redistribution of income is significantly higher among individuals who experienced job losses and, to a lesser extent, among those who experienced an income shock. We show that policy preferences may become self-reinforcing: those who only experienced an income shock are relatively more likely to support benefits for the working poor, while those who experienced job losses favour unemployment benefits. To track the longer-term effects of crisis experiences, we rely on six waves of the World Value Surveys spanning over 100 economies and exploit differences in lifetime exposures to crises by country, year of birth and survey year. Individuals who lived through a major recession during adulthood express a stronger preference for state ownership and redistribution of income. Moreover, we show that the impacts of multiple recessions on attitudes can accumulate.</p>","PeriodicalId":47518,"journal":{"name":"International Tax and Public Finance","volume":"34 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138526044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal dynamic nonlinear income taxation with wage regulations","authors":"Yunmin Chen","doi":"10.1007/s10797-023-09789-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-023-09789-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47518,"journal":{"name":"International Tax and Public Finance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48244206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Fiorio, T. Frattini, A. Riganti, Michael Christl
{"title":"Migration and public finances in the EU","authors":"C. Fiorio, T. Frattini, A. Riganti, Michael Christl","doi":"10.1007/s10797-023-09787-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-023-09787-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47518,"journal":{"name":"International Tax and Public Finance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47022148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A note on welfarist versus non-welfarist social welfare function","authors":"Zhiyong An","doi":"10.1007/s10797-023-09790-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-023-09790-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47518,"journal":{"name":"International Tax and Public Finance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48602416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does official development assistance benefit the donor economy? New evidence from Japanese overseas infrastructure projects","authors":"Shuhei Nishitateno","doi":"10.1007/s10797-023-09788-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-023-09788-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47518,"journal":{"name":"International Tax and Public Finance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47885387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tax competition and harmonization where tastes for public goods differ","authors":"Z. Abidi, Emmanuelle Taugourdeau","doi":"10.1007/s10797-023-09781-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-023-09781-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47518,"journal":{"name":"International Tax and Public Finance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47317087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families","authors":"Volker Meier, Matthew Rablen","doi":"10.1007/s10797-023-09786-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-023-09786-w","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We analyse a model in which families may either be ‘traditional’ single-earner that care for the child at home or be ‘ modern’ double-earner households that use market child care. Family policies may favour one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash-for-care. Policies are determined by probabilistic voting, where distributional impacts matter, both within and across groups. A higher share of modern households—which can be induced by changes in social norms or by changes in gender wage inequality—may have non-monotone effects, with lower net subsidies to traditional households when their share is very low or very high, and higher subsidies in some intermediate stage. This may explain the implementation of cash-for-care policies and their subsequent tightening in late stages of development, when most voters come from modern households, observed in Norway and Sweden.","PeriodicalId":47518,"journal":{"name":"International Tax and Public Finance","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135210668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Till taxes keep us apart? The impact of the marriage tax on the marriage rate","authors":"Nadia Myohl","doi":"10.1007/s10797-023-09784-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-023-09784-y","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Married couples can face a higher or lower tax burden than cohabitating couples with the same income when the former are taxed as one unit. I study the effect of such joint income taxation on the marriage rate in Switzerland, where tax differentials between married and cohabitating couples vary considerably across cantons. For this purpose, I construct a dataset containing sociodemographic and -economic variables on every individual living in Switzerland and use household-level information to identify cohabitating couples. Using a simulated instrumental variable approach, I find a negative impact of joint income taxation on the marriage rate for couples married between 2012 and 2019. The effect is driven by households without children and from the lower end of the income distribution.","PeriodicalId":47518,"journal":{"name":"International Tax and Public Finance","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135454528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unemployment and endogenous choice on tax instruments in a tax competition model: unit tax versus ad valorem tax","authors":"Yuya Kikuchi, Toshiki Tamai","doi":"10.1007/s10797-023-09785-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-023-09785-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47518,"journal":{"name":"International Tax and Public Finance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46709479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labor share as an \"automatic stabilizer\" of income inequality","authors":"Bruno Bises, F. Bloise, Antonio Scialà","doi":"10.1007/s10797-023-09782-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-023-09782-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47518,"journal":{"name":"International Tax and Public Finance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46240202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}