Martin Eckhoff Andresen is a Tenure-track associate professor at the Department of Economics. His project starts with the observations that the empirical literature investigating how individuals respond to incentives in the tax systems tend to fund surprisingly small labor supply responses. The aim of his project is to explore why people do not adjust their workload according to incentives in the tax and welfare systems, as one might expect.
Andresen questions whether the lack of information, long-term career adjustments, credit constraints, inflexibility in working hours, or something entirely different prevents people from adapting. Alternatively, income volatility may play a role in how individuals are able to control incomes, as well as shaping the total progressivity of the tax system altogether.
He will seek answers to these using modern empirical methods, Norwegian registry data, incentives from various tax and welfare schemes over many years and quasi-experimental variation in the access to information about tax and benefits schedules.