Essays about: "Earned Income Tax Credit EITC"

Found 2 essays containing the words Earned Income Tax Credit EITC.

1. 1. Did the earned income tax credit affect women’s labour supply in Sweden?

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Hyrije Hasani; Marija Kamath; [2019]
   Keywords : Women’s labour supply; Earned Income Tax Credit EITC ; Neoclassical model of labour-leisure choice; Difference-in-Differences DiD ;

   Abstract : Women’s labour supply in Sweden, even if it is high in comparison to other countries, is still lower than men’s. Did the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) reform in 2007 affect women’s labour supply? It is difficult to estimate the effects of the EITC, mainly because everybody in Sweden was treated simultaneously, and because the Great Recession hit at the same time. READ MORE

3. 2. Earned Income Tax Credit and Wages: A Study of Swedish Panel Data

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Jesper Ekman; [2018]
   Keywords : EITC; Wage; Labor supply; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how the introduction of an Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in Sweden in 2007 may have affected pre-tax salaries. Previous research has found that the incidence of an EITC may not be entirely carried by the employees, which in some earlier research is assumed. READ MORE