Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34902 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3451
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient not to distort the choice of education. In general this implies distorting the saving decision. Hence a strict order of policy priority is derived. Efficient tax policy ranks education higher than saving. The result assumes an isoelastic earnings function and holds else for arbitrary utility functions. Isoelasticity of earnings is justified with reference to the empirically well-founded Power Law of Learning.
Subjects: 
Endogenous choice of education
labour and saving
efficient taxation of human and nonhuman capital investment
power law of learning
JEL: 
H21
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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