@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp5293, author={Arulampalam, Wiji and Devereux, Michael P. and Maffini, Giorgia}, title={The Direct Incidence of Corporate Income Tax on Wages}, year={2010}, month={Oct}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={5293}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5293}, abstract={We examine the extent to which taxes on corporate income are directly shifted onto the workforce. We use data on 55,082 companies located in nine European countries over the period 1996-2003. We identify this direct shifting through cross-company variation in tax liabilities, conditional on value added per employee. Our central estimate is that the long run elasticity of the wage bill with respect to taxation is -0.093. Evaluated at the mean, this implies that an exogenous rise of $1 in tax would reduce the wage bill by 49 cents. We find only weak evidence of a difference for multinational companies.}, keywords={wage bargaining;effective incidence;income tax}, }