required for making the reform politically viable. However, taxation is distortionary. Then, it is unclear that compensatory … distortions. I consider an economy where workers have sector-specific skills and some sectors are regulated by a price floor …. Transfers have to be financed by proportional taxation on firm's revenues or, equivalently, labor income. Labor supply is …

We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be …

utility distribution, and then apply the model to examine the effects of a move from joint to individual taxation. We show …-household welfare distribution. -- Relational contracts ; households ; allocations ; taxation ; welfare distribution …

effect of profit taxation (as a measure of investment incentives) and an index of hiring and firing costs (proxying exit … manufacturing is negatively affected by the level of profit taxation and exit costs. Hence, if countries want to attract FDI it may …