Is the EITC as good as an NIT? : conditional cash transfers and tax incidence /
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is intended to encourage work. But EITC-induced increases in labor supply may drive wages down, shifting the intended transfer toward employers. I simulate the economic incidence of the EITC under a range of plausible supply and demand elasticities. In all of the...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ :
Center for Economic Policy Studies, Princeton University,
[2009]
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| Series: | CEPS working paper ;
no. 184 |
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