Labor Migration and the Case for Flat Tax

Tomer Blumkin, Efraim Sadka and Yotam Shem-Tov

No 275759, Foerder Institute for Economic Research Working Papers from Tel-Aviv University > Foerder Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: In this paper we employ a tax-competition model to demonstrate that in the presence of migration the re-distributive advantage of a non-linear income tax system over a linear (flat) one is significantly mitigated relative to the autarky (no-migration) equilibrium. A coordinated shift to a flat system with its entailed administrative advantages may therefore be warranted.

Keywords: Financial Economics; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 60
Date: 2011-04
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.275759

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