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Compensating Differentials and Income Taxes

Are the Wages of Dangerous Jobs More Responsive to Tax Changes than the Wages of Safe Jobs?

David Powell
Journal of Human Resources, October 2012, 47 (4) 1023-1054; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.47.4.1023
David Powell
David Powell is an economist at RAND. He is grateful to David Autor, Arthur Campbell, Tom Chang, Jesse Edgerton, Michael Greenstone, Tal Gross, Jon Gruber, Jerry Hausman, Helen Hsi, Konrad Menzel, Whitney Newey, Amanda Pallais, Jim Poterba, Nirupama Rao, Hui Shan, and Carmen Taveras for their comments
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