Arbeitspapier

Heterogeneity in Needs and Negative Marginal Tax Rates

This paper highlights the possibility that negative marginal tax rates arise in an intensive-margin optimal income tax model where wages are exogenous and preferences are homogeneous, but where agents differ both in skills (labor market productivity) and their needs for a work-related consumption good.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 6708

Classification
Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Subject
nonlinear income taxation
negative marginal tax rates
heterogeneity in needs
redistribution

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bastani, Spencer
Blomquist, Sören
Micheletto, Luca
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2017

Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bastani, Spencer
  • Blomquist, Sören
  • Micheletto, Luca
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2017

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