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- Title
Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule.
- Authors
Kostøl, Andreas R.; Myhre, Andreas S.
- Abstract
Despite the implications for policy, empirical evidence on the relative importance of factors that shape labor supply responses is missing. This paper helps fill this gap and quantifies the role of information frictions versus other frictions by combining notches in the Norwegian welfare system and quasi-experimental variation in access to information about the slope and location of kinks. While we estimate a frictionless elasticity of 0.3, overall frictions attenuate this elasticity by about 70 percent. We find the information letter increased the earnings elasticity from 0.06 to 0.15, implying that information frictions account for at least 30 percent of total attenuation. (JEL D83, H24, I38, J22, J28, J31)
- Subjects
LABOR supply; TAX benefits; ACCESS to information; ELASTICITY; FRICTION
- Publication
American Economic Review, 2021, Vol 111, Issue 11, p3733
- ISSN
0002-8282
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1257/aer.20201877