Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24324 
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Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 99-42
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
We analyze a two-period modell where risk-averse students divide their time between risky education, leisure, and work. The educated can migrate. Wagetax financed transfer to students acts as an insurance, and increases both investment in education and demand for leisure. We drive sufficient conditions for tax competition to lead to too low wage tax rates. We suggest, that the educated should pay their wage taxes to the region which has financed their education. We show that this would increase taxation and investment in education, and would benefit also the owners of the complementary factor.
Subjects: 
Fiscal federalism
tax competition
optimal taxation
education subsidies
tax constitution
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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