Money or Joy

Annette Alstadsæter, Ann-Sofie Kolm and Birthe Larsen

No 23-2005, Working Papers from Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of taxes on the individuals' choices of educational direction, and thus on the economy.s skill composition. A proportional labour tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an educational type associated with high consumption value and low effort. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in the economy. The government can correct for this distortion by use of differentiated tuition fees or tax rates.

Keywords: Unemployment; matching; education; optimal taxation; tuition fees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H21 H24 J64 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2005-11-28
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