Arbeitspapier

Income taxation, tuition subsidies, and choice of occupation : implications for production efficiency

The desirability for production efficiency is re-examined in this study, where agents choose occupation based on lifetime income net of tuition costs. Efficient revenue raising implies that the government should trade off efficiency in production for efficiency in intertemporal consumption, as capital income is taxed in optimum. The subsequent wage difference between high- and low-skilled occupations is increased compared to a production efficient outcome, which is in contrast to previous results in the literature.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 1627

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
Thema
optimal income taxation
subsidies for tuition
skill formation
production efficiency
Einkommensteuer
Optimale Besteuerung
Berufswahl
Bildungsertrag
Studienfinanzierung
Technische Effizienz
Zeitpräferenz
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bjertnæs, Geir Haakon
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2005

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bjertnæs, Geir Haakon
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2005

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