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Income and occupational choice responses of the self-employed to tax rate changes: Heterogeneity across reforms and income

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  • Bosch, Nicole
  • de Boer, Henk-Wim

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This study examines the responsiveness of self-employment income and choice of self-employment rather than wage employment to tax changes in the Netherlands. We exploit several tax reforms in 1999–2012 that affected income from self-employment and wage income differently. We estimate an Elasticity of Taxable Income (ETI) of 0.3 for the self-employed. We find that the self-employed respond much stronger to tax incentives than wage earners, and did so more to the major tax reform in 2001 than to the two smaller reforms in 2005 and 2007. Further, contrary to earlier studies, we find the ETI for the self-employed to be decreasing in income. However, we find no evidence that net-of-tax earnings differentials affect occupational choice responses.

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  • Bosch, Nicole & de Boer, Henk-Wim, 2019. "Income and occupational choice responses of the self-employed to tax rate changes: Heterogeneity across reforms and income," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 1-20.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:labeco:v:58:y:2019:i:c:p:1-20
    DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2019.02.005
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    Cited by:

    1. Carina Neisser, 2021. "The Elasticity of Taxable Income: A Meta-Regression Analysis [The top 1% in international and historical perspective]," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 131(640), pages 3365-3391.
    2. Egbert L. W. Jongen & Maaike Stoel, 2019. "The Elasticity of Taxable Labour Income in the Netherlands," De Economist, Springer, vol. 167(4), pages 359-386, December.
    3. Sebastián Castillo, 2024. "Tax policy design in a hierarchical model with occupational decisions," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 31(5), pages 1295-1341, October.
    4. Can, Ege & Fossen, Frank M., 2023. "Income Taxation and Hours Worked in Different Types of Entrepreneurship," IZA Discussion Papers 16683, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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    Keywords

    Time allocation; Self-employed; Elasticity of taxable income;
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    JEL classification:

    • H24 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
    • H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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