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Efficient Subsidization of Human Capital Accumulation with Overlapping Generations and Endogenous Growth

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2010

This paper studies second-best policies in an OLG model in which endogenous growth results from human capital accumulation. When young, individuals decide on education, saving, and nonqualified labour. When old, individuals supply qualified labour. Growth equilibria are inefficient in...

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Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments

Findeisen, Sebastian - 2015

We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We … independent of the social welfare function and determined by the degree of income risk and risk aversion. The optimal linear … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results …

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Sufficient Statistic or Not? The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Deduction Possibilities

Doerrenberg, Philipp - 2014

The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is often interpreted as a sufficient statistic to assess the welfare costs of taxation. Building on the conceptual framework of Chetty (2009), we show that this assertion does no longer hold for tax systems with deduction possibilities if (i) deductions...

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Optimal Taxation with Multiple Incomes and Types

Spiritus, Kevin; Lehmann, Etienne; Renes, Sander; … - 2022

We analyze the optimal nonlinear income tax schedule when taxpayers earn multiple incomes and differ along many unobserved dimensions. We derive the necessary conditions for the government s optimum using both a tax perturbation and a mechanism design approach, and show that both methods produce...

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Smooth Income Tax Schedules : Derivation and Consequences

Estévez Schwarz, Diana - 2018

Existing tax schedules are often overly complex and characterized by discontinuities in the marginal tax burden. In this paper we propose a class of progressive smooth functions to replace personal income tax schedules. These functions depend only on three meaningful parameters, and avoid the...

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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation

Apps, Patricia - 2011

Given its significance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the literature. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main characteristics. We fully characterize optimal tax parameters for the cases in which budget sets are convex...

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Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families

Blundell, Richard W. - 2011

The optimal design of low income support is examined using a structural labour supply model. The approach incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work, childcare costs and the detailed non-convexities of the tax and transfer system. The analysis considers purely Pareto improving...

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Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Extensive and Intensive Responses

Jacquet, Laurence - 2010

This paper characterizes optimal income taxation when individuals respond along both the intensive and extensive margins. Individuals are heterogeneous across two dimensions: specifically, their skill and disutility of participation. Preferences over consumption and work effort can differ with...

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A Simple Theory of Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Equilibrium Unemployment

Hungerbühler, Mathias - 2010

We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model, agents are endowed with different skill levels and labor markets are perfectly segmented by skill. The government only observes negotiated wages. More progressive taxation leads to...

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Accounting for Family Background When Designing Optimal Income Taxes : A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis

Aaberge, Rolf - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal income taxation. Unlike the pure EOp criterion of Roemer (1998) the extended EOp criterion allows...

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