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Redistributive Income Taxation under Outsourcing and Foreign Direct Investment

Aronsson, Thomas - 2010

This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for, domestic labor

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Optimal Redistribution and Monitoring of Labor Effort

Zoutman, Floris - 2014

This paper extends the Mirrlees (1971) model of optimal non-linear income taxation with a monitoring technology that allows the government to verify labor effort at a positive, but non-infinite cost. Monitored individuals receive a penalty, which increases if individuals earn a lower income...

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Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments

Findeisen, Sebastian - 2015

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …

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Should Pollution Taxes Be Targeted at Income Redistribution?

Jacobs, Bas - 2017

This paper analyses optimal corrective taxation and optimal income redistribution. Under general utility functions, the …

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Optimal Taxation, Income Inequality and the Household

Apps, Patricia F. - 2016

. The main reason for this is the inequity created by income splitting in the presence of a high degree of inequality in the …

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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

Bastani, Spencer - 2014

In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...

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Optimal Redistributive Pensions and the Cost of Self-Control

St-Amant, Pier-Andre - 2014

of a public pension system: the contribution rate and its degree of redistribution. The pension regime affects …

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The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare

Danziger, Eliav - 2018

This paper analyzes the effects of introducing a graduated minimum wage in a model with optimal income taxation in which a government seeks to maximize social welfare. It shows that the optimal graduated minimum wage increases social welfare by increasing the low-productivity workers'...

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Public Provision of Private Goods and Nondistortionary Marginal Tax Rates

Blomquist, Soren - 2008

The incidence and efficiency losses of taxes have usually been analysed in isolation from public expenditures. This negligence of the expenditure side may imply a serious misperception of the effects of marginal tax rates. The reason is that part of the marginal tax may in fact be payment for...

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Optimal Income Taxation in Unionized Labor Markets

Hummel, Albert Jan - 2018

unions can be desirable for income redistribution. Unions bargain with firms over wages in each sector and firms unilaterally … determine employment. Unions raise the efficiency costs of income redistribution, because unemployment benefits and income taxes …

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