preferences, this is not so in the case of random utility models. Note that since the non-labor income elasticity is negative the … Slutsky equation implies that the compensated wage elasticity is higher than the uncompensated one. With a random utility … model we show empirically that in many cases the uncompensated wage elasticity is in fact the highest one. …

responses. The first elasticity (supply side) is the sole real factor limiting optimal top tax rates. The optimal tax system … should be designed to minimize the second elasticity (avoidance) through tax enforcement and tax neutrality across income … forms, in which case the second elasticity becomes irrelevant. The optimal top tax rate increases with the third elasticity …