Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18678 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1313
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This study investigates spatial segregation of the population in fiscally decentralized urban areas. The theoretical part proposes the progressivity of local income taxes as a new explanation for income segregation. The empirical part studies how income tax differentials across municipalities in the Swiss metropolitan area of Basel affect the households? location decisions. The (multinomial) location choice of households is investigated within the framework of the random utility maximization model (RUM). The theoretical model is used to identify the household preferences applied in the RUM. The empirical results show that rich households are significantly and substantially more likely to move to low-tax municipalities than poor households.
Subjects: 
location choice
income segregation
fiscal federalism
progressive taxation
discrete choice
JEL: 
R23
R20
H73
H71
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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