Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany

Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

No 241, ifo Working Paper Series from ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Abstract: This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities exploiting 6,800 tax changes for identication. Using event study designs and differences-in-differences models, we find that workers bear about half of the total tax burden. Administrative linked employer-employee data allow us to estimate heterogeneous firm and worker effects. Our findings highlight the importace of labor market institutions and profit-shifting opportunities for the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. Moreover, we show that low-skilled, young and female employees bear a larger share of the tax burden. This has important distributive implications.

JEL-codes: H20 H70 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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