Variable Earnings and Nonlinear Taxation

Michael Rothschild () and Robert Moffitt

No 1163, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We explore the interaction between two facts. The first is that income is variable; the second is that the tax and transfer system transforms before tax income into after tax income in highly non-linear ways. The effect is to penalize (and reward) income variability in a manner which is both substantial and capricious.

Date: 1983-06
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Published as Moffitt, Robert and Michael Rothschild. "Variable Earnings and Nonlinear Taxation," Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 22, No. 3, Summer 1987, pp. 405- 421.

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