Help the Low Skilled or Let the Hardworking Thrive? A Study of Fairness in Optimal Income Taxation

Marc Fleurbaey and Francois Paul Maniquet ()

Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2007, vol. 9, issue 3, pages 467-500

Abstract: In a model where agents have unequal wages and heterogeneous preferences, we study the optimal redistribution via an income tax, when the social objective is based on a combination of efficiency and fairness principles, and when incentive issues are taken into account. We show how some fairness principles entail specific features for the optimal taxes, such as progressivity or tax exemption for incomes below the minimum wage. Copyright 2007 Blackwell Publishing, Inc..

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