IZA Workshop: The Economics of Labor Income Taxation

Friday, September 12:

09:00	-	09:05		Welcome to IZA by Daniel Hamermesh (Director of Research -- IZA and University of Texas at Austin)
09:05	-	09:15		Welcome Address by Pierre Cahuc (University of Paris 1 and IZA)
09:14				Session 1: Taxation and Education
09:15	-	10:15		Pierre Pestieau (Université de Liège, CREPP), Helmuth Cremer (University of Toulouse 1), Maria Racionero (Australian National University)
				"Unequal Wages for Equal Utilities"
				Discussant: Stephane Gauthier (CREST-INSEE)
10:15	-	11:15		Panu Poutvaara (University of Helsinki)
				"The Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation"
				Discussant: Graziella Bertocchi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
11:15	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:29				Session 2: Taxation and Heterogeneity
11:30	-	12:30		Helmuth Cremer (University of Toulouse I), Firouz Gahvari (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jean-Marie Lozachmeur (CREMAQ - University of Toulouse)
				"Tagging and Income Taxation: Theory and an Application"
				Discussant: Ray Rees (University of Munich)
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch
14:00	-	15:00		Graziella Bertocchi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
				"The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State"
				Discussant: Pierre Cahuc (University of Paris 1)
14:59				Session 3: Taxation and Household
15:00	-	16:00		Ray Rees (University of Munich), Patricia Apps (University of Sydney and IZA), Ngo Van Long (McGill University)
				"Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation"
				Discussant: Efraim Sadka (Tel Aviv University)
16:00	-	16:30		Coffee Break
16:30	-	17:30		Martin F. Hellwig (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)
				"Optimal Income Taxation, Public Goods Provision and Public Sector Pricing: A Contribution to the Foundations of Public Economics"
				Discussant: Pierre Pestieau (Université de Liège, CREPP)
19:00				Dinner

Saturday, September 13:

09:00				Session 4: Taxation and Labor Supply
09:00	-	10:00		Katie Fitzpatrick (Syracuse University), Jeffrey P. Thompson (Syracuse University)
				"The Interaction of Metropolitan Area Costs and the Federal EITC: One Size Fits All?"
				Discussant: Konstantinos Tatsiramos (IZA)
10:00	-	11:00		Arthur van Soest (Tilburg University), Elena Stancanelli (CNRS, Thema, University of Cergy Pontoise)
				"Taxation, Household Chores and Spouses' Market Labour Supply: A Discrete Choice Model for French Couples"
				Discussant: Katie Fitzpatrick (Syracuse University)
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:30				Session 5: Taxation and Labor Market Imperfections
11:30	-	12:30		Efraim Sadka (Tel Aviv University), Tomer Blumkin (Ben-Gurion University), Yoram Margalioth (Tel Aviv University)
				"Incorporating Affirmative Action into the Welfare State"
				Discussant: Panu Poutvaara (University of Helsinki)
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch
14:00	-	15:00		Etienne Lehmann (CREST-INSEE), Alexis Parmentier (EPEE - TEPP University of Evry), Bruno Van der Linden (Catholic University of Louvain and IZA)
				"Optimal income taxation with endogenous participation and search unemployment"
				Discussant: Helmuth Cremer (University of Toulouse I)
15:00				Session 6: Taxation and Dynamics
15:00	-	16:00		Wolfram F. Richter (University of Dortmund)
				"Efficient Tax Policy Ranks Education Higher Than Saving"
				Discussant: Etienne Lehmann (CREST-INSEE)
16:00	-	16:30		Coffee Break
16:30	-	17:30		Victoria L. Prowse (University of Oxford), Peter Haan (DIW Berlin), Arne Uhlendorff (IZA)
				"Employment Effects of Welfare Reforms - Evidence from a dynamic structural Life-Cycle Model"
				Discussant: Guy Laroque (CREST-INSEE)