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Equilibrium Worker-Firm Allocations and the Deadweight Losses of Taxation

Bagger, Jesper; Moen, Espen R.; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2021

amenities. A planner uses affine tax functions to finance lump-sum transfers to all workers and unemployment benefits. The …

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Optimal redistributive taxation with both labor supply and labor demand responses

Jacquet, Laurence; Lehmann, Etienne; van der Linden, Bruno - 2011

This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive tax schedule in a matching unemployment framework with endogenous (voluntary) nonparticipation and (involuntary) unemployment. The optimal employment tax rate is given by an inverse employment elasticity rule. This rule depends on the global...

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Measuring the marginal efficiency cost of redistribution in the UK

Adam, Stuart - 2005

This paper estimates the marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) associated with a demogrant and an in … redistribution within family types. The inwork benefit policy looks even more favourable if paid to (and financed by) only singles …

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How Many Educated Workers for Your Economy? European Targets, Optimal Public Spending, and Labor Market Impact

Lebon, Isabelle; Rebière, Thérèse - 2015

This paper studies optimal taxation schemes for education in a search-matching model where the labor market is divided between a high-skill and a low-skill sector. Two public policy targets - maximizing the global employment level and optimizing the social surplus - are studied according to...

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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets: what are the driving forces?

Boeters, Stefan - 2009

In labour markets with collective wage bargaining higher progressivity of the labour income tax creates a trade-off. On the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other hand, the individual labour supply decision is distorted at the hours-of-work margin. The optimal level...

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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets: Simulation results for Germany

Boeters, Stefan - 2010

Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the one hand, higher progressivity distorts individual labour supply decisions at the hours-of-work margin, on the other hand, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure...

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Tax effects, search unemployment, and the choice of educational type

Alstadsæter, Annette; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2005

This paper examines the effect of taxes on the individuals? choices of educational direction, and thus on the economy's skill composition. A proportional labour income tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an educational type with high consumption value and low effort...

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Optimal income taxation with endogenous participation and search unemployment

Lehmann, Etienne; Parmentier, Alexis; van der Linden, Bruno - 2011

We characterize optimal redistributive taxation when individuals are heterogeneous in their skills and their values of non-market activities. Search-matching frictions on the labor markets create unemployment. Wages, labor demand and participation are endogenous. Average tax rates are increasing...

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Outsourcing, unemployment and welfare policy

Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - 2008

challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … improving by using a redistributive linear income tax if redistribution is initially not too large. We finally derive the … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. …

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Why are capital income taxes so high?

Flodén, Martin - 2006

The Ramsey optimal taxation theory implies that the tax rate on capital income should be zero in the long run. This …

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