outsourcing by locating part of the production process abroad. Our results show that the incentive to relax the self … 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, which is desirable in the sense that reduced outsourcing contributes …

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 …

outsourcing by locating part of the production process abroad. Our results show that the incentive to relax the self … 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, which is desirable in the sense that reduced outsourcing contributes …

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 …

This paper addresses outsourcing in the two-type optimal income tax model. If the government is able to control … outsourcing via a direct tax instrument, outsourcing will not affect the marginal income tax structure. In the absence of a direct … tax instrument, and under the plausible assumption that higher outsourcing increases the wage differential, the government …