This article surveys the economic theory that designs the optimal nonlinear income tax schedule that trades off the equity gains of a more progressive income tax schedule against the incentives to work less induced by such a more progressive income tax schedule. We take into account not only the...

In France, the coexistence of three expensive policies intended to reduce the labor cost, a general payroll tax cut on low-paid jobs, the Tax Credit for Competition and Employment and the Responsibility Pact announced in early 2014 is a source of complexity that makes the overall tax-benefit...

This paper characterizes optimal non-linear income taxation in an economy with a continuum of unobservable productivity levels and endogenous involuntary unemployment due to frictions in the labour markets. Redistributive taxation distorts labour demand and wages. Compared to their efficient...

[fre] Cet article étudie si la mise en place d’une allocation universelle pourrait réduire à la fois le chômage et les inégalités. La présence d’allocation universelle se traduit par davantage de progressivité dans le système fiscal, ce qui réduit la pression salariale exprimée...

We estimate the responses of gross labor income with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over the period 2003–2006. We exploit a series of reforms to the income-tax and payroll-tax schedules affecting individuals who earn less than twice the minimum wage. Our estimate...