Abstract

In the present paper we compare standard wage processes used in the quantitative literature on the optimal tax progressivity and a process with heterogeneous life-cycle profiles (HIP hereafter) that we propose against the data. We find that the former fail to capture several features of the earnings dynamics at the very top of the distribution while our proposed model improves along some of these dimensions.

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