Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/166005 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2016:4
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
This is a study of the link between taxes and youth self-employment, using a Swedish reform implemented in 2007-09 which suddenly made the payroll tax and the self-employment tax vary by age. The results suggest that youth self-employment is insensitive to tax reductions, both in the short run and in the somewhat longer run. The effect of the tax reductions on income is also studied. For those that are defined as self-employed, positive effects on income from self-employment, and negative effects on income from wage employment can be found. This finding suggests that the lower taxes caused the self-employed to reallocate time from employment to self-employment.
Subjects: 
Youth unemployment
Self-employment tax
Tax subsidy
Self-employment
JEL: 
H25
H32
J23
J38
J68
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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