This paper concerns optimal redistributive income taxation and provision of a public input good in a two-type model with a minimum wage policy implemented for the low-ability type, where firms may outsource part of the production process abroad, and where outsourcing is substitutable for...

This paper concerns optimal redistributive income taxation and provision of a public input good in a two-type model with a minimum wage policy implemented for the low-ability type, where firms may use some of their resources for outsourcing by locating part of the production process abroad. Our...

This paper concerns social accounting in an economy with union wage setting, where the equilibrium is characterized by unemployment. By analogy to the literature on social accounting under environmental external effects, the current value Hamiltonian (or extended NNP in utility terms) is not an...