Arbeitspapier

Redistributive Capital Taxation Revisited

This paper shows that capital-skill complementarity provides a quantitatively significant rationale to tax capital for redistributive governments. The optimal capital income tax rate is 60%, which is significantly higher than the optimal rate of 48% in an identically calibrated model without capital-skill complementarity. The skill premium falls from 1.9 to 1.67 along the transition following the optimal reform in the capital-skill complementarity model, implying substantial indirect redistribution from skilled to unskilled workers. These results show that a government that cares about redistribution should take into account capital-skill complementarity in production when setting the tax rate on capital income.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8627

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Thema
capital taxation
capital-skill complementarity
inequality
redistribution

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kina, Özlem
Slavik, Ctirad
Yazici, Hakki
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kina, Özlem
  • Slavik, Ctirad
  • Yazici, Hakki
  • Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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