Anders Frederiksen og Jan V. Hansen

Arbejdspapir 2002:1

Abstract
We introduce the Hausman method for estimation of labour supply and present some recent quantitative studies of Danish labour supply based on this approach. The preferred model is used for simulating labour supply and distributional impact of alternative tax reforms which reduce the tax burden on wage income in different income ranges. Despite the relatively small labour supply elasticities, some of the experiments are almost self-financed, but the general picture is that rates of self-financing are modest. It turns out that the choice of tax reform is important when considering inequality issues.