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non-market activities. Search-matching frictions on the labor markets create unemployment. Wages, labor demand and … ; adverse selection ; random participation ; unemployment ; labor market frictions …
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in favour of human capital investments. This effect is strengthened when education no longer is a pure investment, but … investments, and it reduces the price of education as a consumption good. By introducing a progressive labour income tax, the …
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minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low … gains of more skill formation outweigh the social welfare losses of increased unemployment. Using a highly conservative …
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We integrate social exclusion, operationalized in terms of long-term unemployment, into the theory of optimal … redistributive taxation. Our results show how an optimal mix of education policy, public employment, and support to the unemployed …, in conjunction with optimal income taxation, contributes to redistribution and reduced long-term unemployment. The second …
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educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in …
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We study the joint design of nonlinear income and education taxes when the government pursues redistributive objectives … education. Market remuneration of agents depends on both their innate ability type and their educational choices. Our focus is … on income and education and shed light on the reasons for it and mechanisms through which it is done. We show how and why …
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This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive tax schedule in a matching unemployment framework where (voluntary …) nonparticipation and (involuntary) unemployment are endogenous. The optimal employment tax rate is given by an inverse employment …. For plausible values of the parameters, our matching environment induces much lower employment tax rates than the usual …
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What are the implications of (endogenous) directed technical change for the design of redistributive income taxes? I study this question in a Mirrleesian economy augmented to include endogenous technology development and adoption choices by firms. Under certain conditions, any progressive tax...
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Unions appear to have an aversion to wage disparities among their members, leading to wage compression. This paper analyses the consequences of this for income tax policy. In a two-sector general equilibrium model we highlight the tradeoff between correcting the resource misallocation created by...
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We develop and estimate a model of jointly optimal income taxes for different types of income. Compared to standard optimal tax formulas, optimal schedular income tax rates additionally depend on cross-elasticities between tax bases capturing fiscal externalities. We discuss two applications:...
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