Research

In my research, I focus on the interaction between labor income taxation and a variety of economic agents and outcomes, with a special focus on the effects of globalization on that interaction.

Ongoing Work:

• (with Michele Gubello), Weakly Progressive: Disproportionate Higher Education Attendance and the Structure of Income Taxes (UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series 2022, WP22/26).

• (with Georg Thunecke & Benedikt Zoller-Rydzek), Falling tariffs: implications of globalization-induced tariff reductions on firms, workers, and tax revenues

  • • WIDER Working Paper 23/2024 (part of UNU-WIDER project Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development / SA-TIED)

    • supported by NORAD (Norwegian Development Agency) and a Research Council of Norway grant (held by A. Alstadsæter)

• (with Georg Thunecke & Lisa Scheckenhofer), When two quarrel, the third rejoices: The third-party impact of EU-Russia trade sanctions in South Africa

• (with Matthew Abagna, Ron Davies, & Nadine Riedel), Do Special Economic Zones Foster Economic Development? – Evidence from South Africa

  • • supported by NORAD (Norwegian Development Agency) and a Research Council of Norway grant (held by A. Alstadsæter)

• (with Peter Egger and Marko Köthenbürger), The Political Economy of Labor Income Tax Progressivity

• (with Peter Egger and Sergey Nigai), Netting It Out: Labor Income Inequality and Taxation around the Globe

• (with Peter Egger and Sergey Nigai), The Effect of Tax Instruments on Income and Consumption in the Global Economy