01847cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF019343 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781498315708 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Velasquez, Agustin. How Does Taxation Affect Hours Worked in EU New Member States? / Agustin Velasquez, Svetlana Vtyurina. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019. 1 online resource (35 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Hours worked vary widely across countries and over time. In this paper, we investigate the role played by taxation in explaining these differences for EU New Member States. By extending a standard growth model with novel data on consumption and labor taxes, we assess the evolution of trends in hours worked over the 1995-2017 period. We find that the inclusion of tax rates in the model significantly improves the tracking of hours. We also estimate the elasticity of hours (and its different margins) to quantify the deadweight loss introduced by consumption and labor taxes. We find that these taxes explain a large share of labor supply differences across EU New Member States and that the potential gains from policy actions are noteworthy. Mode of access: Internet Vtyurina, Svetlana. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/130 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2019/130/001.2019.issue-130-en.xml IMF e-Library