How are optimal taxation rules affected when households differ in their non-market, as well as in their market skills? Where income taxation is concerned, the policy prescription applying in the case where households are differentiated only by wage rate (namely, that high-wage households should...

Die Autoren untersuchen anhand unterschiedlicher Modelle die steuerlichen Maßnahmen, um den Bedürfnissen kinderreicher Familien gerecht zu werden. Unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen könnte sich die Steuerbelastung an der Familiengröße orientieren und kindbedingte Erfordernisse...