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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Non-Hours Responses<br />

Traditional literature focused purely on hours of work and labor force<br />

participation<br />

Problem: income taxes distort many margins beyond hours of work<br />

More important responses may be on those margins<br />

Hours very hard to measure (most ppl report 40 hours per week)<br />

Two solutions in modern literature:<br />

Focus on taxable income (wl) as a broader measure of labor supply<br />

(Feldstein 1995)<br />

Focus on subgroups of workers for whom hours are better measured,<br />

e.g. taxi drivers<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> ()<strong>Part</strong> 5: Income Taxation and Labor Supply 14 / 217

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