Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19091 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1627
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
optimal income taxation
subsidies for tuition
skill formation
production efficiency
JEL: 
H21
H24
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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