The Impact of Changing Skill Levels on Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxes

Craig Brett and John Weymark

No 708, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers from Vanderbilt University Department of Economics

Abstract: The impact of changing an individual's skill level on the solution to a finite population version of the Mirrlees optimal nonlinear income tax problem with quasilinear-in-leisure preferences is investigated. It is shown that it is possible to sign the directions of change in everyone's optimal consumptions and optimal marginal tax rates in response to such a change.

Keywords: Optimal income taxation; comparative statics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D82 H21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-05
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