Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/70389 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Research Report No. 2001-5
Publisher: 
The University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics, London (Ontario)
Abstract: 
In a simple three-factor-two-final-good formulation (two factors immobile and sector-specific), a well-known result under competitive and full-employment assumptions is that a partial tax on the mobile factor in either industry hurts that factor everywhere. It can be reversed, however, when the taxed activity uses a sector-specific input produced in the other sector. The model becomes asymmetrical: the same tax often yields different results, depending on where it is levied and the nature and cross-sector linkages of various inputs. Their respective roles in determining tax- incidence are discussed in a series of plausible settings, each 3 x 2, involving primary and produced inputs and intra-sector mobility of some sector-specific factors. Cross-sector linkages of produced inputs, more than any other element, drive the new results which are often similar to those in models with all mobile factors.
Subjects: 
general equilibrium
intra-sector mobility
tax-incidence
JEL: 
H22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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