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| Title: | | Optimal redistributive taxation and provision of public input goods in an economy with outsourcing and unemployment  |
| Authors: | | Aronsson, Thomas Koskela, Erkki |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 4196 |
| Abstract: | | This paper concerns optimal redistributive income taxation and provision of a public input good in a two-type model with a minimum wage policy implemented for the low-ability type, where firms may outsource part of the production process abroad, and where outsourcing is substitutable for domestic low-ability labor. Our results show that the incentives for the government to relax the self-selection constraint and to increase the employment among the low-skilled reinforce each other in terms of marginal income taxation; both of them contribute to increase the marginal income tax rate implemented for the low-ability type and decrease the marginal income tax rate implemented for the high-ability type. The appearance of equilibrium unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing. Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing, the government may reduce the amount of resources spent on outsourcing by increased provision of the public input good, which leads to less wage inequality and increased employment. |
| Subjects: | | Outsourcing optimal nonlinear taxation public goods unemployment |
| JEL: | | H21 H25 J31 J62 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090615112 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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