What Happens When You Tax the Rich? Evidence from Executive Compensation
- 1 April 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Journal of Political Economy
- Vol. 108 (2) , 352-378
- https://doi.org/10.1086/262122
Abstract
This paper examines the responsiveness of taxable income to changes in marginal tax rates using detailed compensation data on several thousand corporate executives from 1991 to 1995. The data confi...Keywords
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