Maxime Gravoueille

Assistant Professor at Monash University

Area of Expertise

  • Income Dynamics
  • Labor
  • Public

Biography

Maxime is a Lecturer in Economics at Monash University and an affiliate of the Farhi Innovation Lab at the Collège de France.

His research combines quasi-experimental designs with theoretical modeling to study questions in public economics, labor, and innovation. He is particularly interested in understanding the spillover effects of public policies.

He obtained his PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics in 2023, prepared at the Farhi Innovation Lab, Collège de France.

Last publications

    • Shift-share IV

    • Tax Incidence

    • Working Paper

    Wage and Employment Effects of Wage Subsidies

    This paper provides new evidence on how wage subsidies affect wages and employment. Using French administrative data, a 2015 nationwide wage subsidy reform, and a shift-share IV design, I leverage variation in reform exposure across local labor markets stemming from differences in the socio-economic composition of the local working-age population. Local labor markets more exposed […]

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    Maxime Gravoueille

    • Entrepreneurship

    • Taxation

    • Working Paper

    Tax Simplicity or Simplicity of Evasion? Evidence from Self-Employment Taxes in France

    Tax systems are often criticized for being overly complex, leading some countries to offer simplified regimes to some taxpayers. Using panel data on French income tax returns, we show that simplified regimes for the self-employed create substantial bunching just below their eligibility thresholds. This bunching in turn is driven not only by a pure taste […]

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    • Income mobility

    • Inequality

    • Working Paper

    Anatomy of Inequality and Income Dynamics in France

    This paper examines income inequality and dynamics in France, using exhaustive administrative panel data. We find that the market income distribution is highly unequal, with the top 1% receiving around 6% of the income. Income mobility is characterized by strong persistence at all income levels and for all age groups. We propose a non-parametric frame […]

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    • Taxation

    Reforms and Dynamics of Income Evidence Using New Panel Data

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Education

  • PhD, Paris School of Economics
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