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Optimal redistributive tax and education policies in general equilibrium
Jacobs, Bas - 2007
equilibrium effects are sufficiently strong. Under non-linear taxation, governments can directly steer the skill premium by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264262
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Optimal taxation of human capital and the earnings function
Jacobs, Bas; Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2008
This paper explores how the specification of the earnings function impacts the optimal tax treatment of human capital. If education is complementary to labor effort, education should be subsidized to offset tax distortions on labor supply. However, if most of the education is enjoyed by high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272743
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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe
Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - 2009
Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932493
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Human capital and optimal positive taxation of capital income
Jacobs, Bas; Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2005
This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on capital and labor incomes in a life-cyclemodel of human capital investment, financial savings, and labor supply with heteroge-nous individuals. A dual income tax with a positive marginal tax rate on not onlylabor income but also capital income is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343277
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Human Capital External Effect and Taxation of Physical Capital Income
Mityakov, Sergey - 2006
It is commonly believed that taxation of physical capital is quot;a bad ideaquot;. Whereas in reality many countries do … levy heavy taxes on capital income. In this paper we show that taxation of physical capital can be justified when there is … non-convexity of technology due to human capital external effect. We demonstrate that taxation of capital income should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734370
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Optimal Linear Income Taxation and Education Subsidies under Skill-Biased Technical Change
Jacobs, Bas; Thuemmel, Uwe - 2021
This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC). SBTC affects optimal taxes and subsidies by changing i) direct distributional benefits, ii) indirect redistributional effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252225
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Optimal Taxation of Human Capital and the Earnings Function
Jacobs, Bas; Bovenberg, A. Lans - 2021
This paper explores how the specification of the earnings function impacts the optimal tax treatment of human capital. If education is complementary to labor effort, education should be subsidized to offset tax distortions on labor supply. However, if most of the education is enjoyed by high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316559
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Optimal Redistributive Tax and Education Policies in General Equilibrium
Jacobs, Bas - 2021
equilibrium effects are sufficiently strong. Under non-linear taxation, governments can directly steer the skill premium by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316658
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Optimal linear income taxation and education subsidies under skill-biased technical change
Jacobs, Bas; Thuemmel, Uwe - 2020
This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC). SBTC affects optimal taxes and subsidies by changing i) direct distributional benefits, ii) indirect redistributional effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404177
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Islamic work ethics as a key engine of endogenous economic growth
Raies, Asma - In: Islamic economic studies 29 (2022) 2, pp. 86-99
Purpose God promised pious individuals who obey to His commandments, to increase their economic well-being. Although it is difficult to demonstrate with figures in hand this causality relationship, Muslims must believe in its existence and robustness at both the individual and collective levels,...
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