The impact of socioeconomic reforms on the work incentives in Latvia

Publication type

Journal Article

Author

Publication date

June 1, 2014

Summary:

Paper identifies the impact of the proposed and alternative
socioeconomic reforms on changes in work incentives in Latvia. This
paper aims at the assessing the role of Personal Income Tax and basic
allowance in influencing Marginal Effective Tax Rates assessed using
various scenarios of hypothetical policy changes. Results show that the
tax reform implemented since 2014 has a relatively weak impact on the
work incentives of Latvians.

Published in

Applied Economics: Systematic Research

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 8 , p.97 -110

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.7220/AESR.1822.7996.2014.8.1.6

ISSN

18227996

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Link

http://ejournals.vdu.lt/index.php/applied-economics/article/view/168

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