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I'm an Economics Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley focusing on public finance topics at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- The Transitional Costs of Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence From the Clean Air Act and the Workforce
- Top economists on whether we should tax capital income less than labor income
- Corporate Tax Reform: Is broadening the base and lowering the rate always a good idea?
- Apple, Avoidance, and Corporate Tax Incidence
- Valuing The Vote: Evidence from the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Great Questions from Paul Krugman
- Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
- Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies and the Big Push: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority
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- Economist – Democracy in America
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Tag Archives: top 1 percent
Facts are Stubborn Things: High Income Tax Rates and Job Creation
Throughout the campaign and through the fiscal cliff discussions, Republicans have consistently espoused the idea that modestly raising top marginal rates will destroy job creation. For instance, here is Sen Lindsey Gram from ABC’s “This Week”, “[T]o avoid becoming Greece, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Economic Growth, Fiscal Cliff, inequality, Jobs, Laura Tyson, Lindsey Graham, Republicans, Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, top 1 percent
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Tax Reform & the Effective vs Marginal Rate Debate: Evidence from New Research
A new tax reform idea was floated in this NYTimes article: One possible change would tax the entire salary earned by those making more than a certain level — $400,000 or so — at the top rate of 35 percent … Continue reading
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Tagged Effective Tax Rates, Koichiro Ito, Marginal Tax Rates, Tax Reform, Taxes, top 1 percent, top tax rates
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