Financial incentives and earnings of disability insurance recipients: Evidence from a notch design
Most countries reduce disability insurance (DI ) benefits for beneficiaries earning above a specified threshold. Such an earnings threshold generates a discontinuous increase in tax liability-a notch-and creates an incentive to keep earnings below the threshold. Exploiting such a notch in Austria, w...
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| Language: | English |
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American Economic Association
2019
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