Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/248993 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9448
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We integrate social exclusion, operationalized in terms of long-term unemployment, into the theory of optimal redistributive taxation. Our results show how an optimal mix of education policy, public employment, and support to the unemployed, in conjunction with optimal income taxation, contributes to redistribution and reduced long-term unemployment. The second-best optimum most likely implies overprovision of education relative to a policy rule that balances the direct marginal benefit and marginal cost, whereas public employment and unemployment benefits are underprovided. Our calibration shows how the policy mix varies with the government’s preferences for redistribution and the characteristics of those risking long-term unemployment.
Subjects: 
long-term unemployment
education
optimal income taxation
public sector employment
JEL: 
H21
J24
J45
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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