The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand
研究德国税收政策改革中工人税前收入调整的速度，发现超过38%的工人因摩擦而延迟调整，并指出企业劳动力需求差异是导致调整速度不同的关键因素。
This paper studies the speed at which workers’ pretax earnings respond to tax changes along the intensive margin. We do so in the context of Germany, where a large notch in the tax schedule induces sharp bunching in the earnings distribution. We analyze earnings responses to two policy reforms that shift this notch outward and find clear evidence that frictions delay the earnings responses of more than 38% of workers. We propose that heterogeneity in firm labor demand plays a key role in generating the observed differences in the speed of workers’ earnings responses and provide supporting evidence.