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Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Provision of Public Input Goods in an Economy with Outsourcing and Unemployment
Aronsson, Thomas - 2010
abroad, and where outsourcing is substitutable for domestic low-ability labor. Our results show that the incentives for the … unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing. Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing …, the government may reduce the amount of resources spent on outsourcing by increased provision of the public input good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152608
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On the Optimality of a Minimum Wage : New Insights from Optimal Tax Theory
Hungerbühler, Mathias - 2007
We build a theoretical model to study whether a minimum wage can be welfare-improving if it is implemented in conjunction with an optimized nonlinear income tax. We consider this issue in a framework where search frictions on the labor market generate unemployment. Workers differ in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776136
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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 in-come taxation in which a government seeks to maximize social welfare. It shows that the optimal graduated minimum wage increases social welfare by increasing the lowproductivity workers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923241
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Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labor Market : Does Monopsony Justify the Minimum Wage?
Cahuc, Pierre; Laroque, Guy - 2021
We analyze optimal taxation in an economy with monopsonistic labor markets. The individuals, whose only decisions are whether to work, or not, have heterogeneous productivities and opportunity costs of work. Given its preferences for redistribution, the government, which does not observe the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316879
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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets Under Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2009
-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154961
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Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation
Aronsson, Thomas - 2010
This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using … the provision of public input goods in response to international outsourcing, and (ii) whether international outsourcing … justifies policy cooperation. If the public input good is substitutable for (complementary with) outsourcing in terms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149520
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The Direct Incidence of Corporate Income Tax on Wages
Arulampalam, Wiji - 2010
We examine the extent to which taxes on corporate income are directly shifted onto the workforce. We use data on 55,082 companies located in nine European countries over the period 1996-2003. We identify this direct shifting through cross-company variation in tax liabilities, conditional on...
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Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms : Comment
Malgouyres, Clément; Mayer, Thierry; Mazet-Sonilhac, … - 2023
Suárez Serrato and Zidar (2016) identify state corporate tax incidence in a spatial equilibrium model with imperfectly mobile firms. Their identification argument rests on comparative-statics omitting a channel implied by their model: the link between common determinants of a location's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014256416
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Quantifying Optimal Growth Policy
Grossmann, Volker - 2010
The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and takes into account transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141717
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Minimum Wage and Tax Evasion : Theory and Evidence
Tonin, Mirco - 2011
prediction of the theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126132