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| Title: | | (Post-)materialist attitudes and the mix of capital and labour taxation  |
| Authors: | | König, Tobias Wagener, Andreas |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion papers // School of Economics and Management of the Hanover Leibniz University 404 |
| Abstract: | | Social values shape policy outcomes. We examine the role of postmaterialism, a widely used concept in the social sciences, for the mix of capital and labour taxation chosen by a society. Following political scientist Inglehart, we define the degree of postmaterialism as the relative importance which individuals or a society as a whole ascribe to non-material values over material things. We incorporate this notion into a simple tax model for a small open economy. We show that a greater emphasis on immaterial values will lower the ratio of capital to labour taxes. Subsequently, we test our theoretical results empirically, using a panel data set comprising 17 OECD countries over the period 1981-2000. Proxies for the degree of postmaterialism are developed from the World Values Surveys. Their impact on the tax mix is highly significant and goes into the theoretically predicted direction. |
| Subjects: | | Culture economics social values postmaterialism taxation |
| JEL: | | Z13 E62 H20 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Diskussionspapiere, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover
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