The recent reforms of the Italian personal income tax: distributive and efficiency effects

Massimo Baldini and Daniele Pacifico ()

Department of Economics from University of Modena and Reggio E., Faculty of Economics "Marco Biagi"

Abstract: The aim of this paper is the study of three reforms of the Italian personal income tax that have been implemented over the past six years. The analysis is carried out in three stages. In the first stage we study their distributive effects using a static microsimulation model. In the second stage we focus on the labour supply effects by means of a structural microeconometric model of household labour supply; finally, we analyze the distributive effects of the reforms accounting for labour supply reactions. Our findings confirm that the extension of the no-tax area had positive effects in terms of both redistribution and work incentives, while greater benefits for households with children improved income distribution but with negative effects on the labour supply of married women,

Keywords: microsimulation; labour supply; income distribution; income tax (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H24 H31 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pages 24
Date: 2009-03
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Journal Article: The Recent reforms of the Italian Personal Income Tax: Distributive and Efficiency Effects (2009)
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