22
MAY
2017
14:15
- 15:45
IWH Research Seminar
The Impact of Taxes on Income Mobility
Who
Mario Alloza
(Bank of Spain, Madrid)
Where
IWH conference room
This paper investigates how taxes affect relative mobility in the income distribution in the US. Household panel data drawn from the PSID between 1967 and 1996 is employed to analyse the relationship between marginal tax rates and the probability of staying in the same income decile.