L'interaction entre les politiques sociales et les choix technologiques des entreprises: le cas de l'impôt négatif

Samir Amine and Pedro Lages Dos Santos

Revue d'économie politique, 2008, vol. 118, issue 3, 395-409

Abstract: This article deals with the effect of a Negative Income Tax (NIT) scheme on firms? behaviour as regards their technological choices. Within the framework of a matching model with differentiation of the agents, we show that a NIT reduces inequalities and rises employment making agents less selective. Moreover, the repercussions of such a policy on technological choices are generally underestimated. We show that the introduction of a NIT can encourage firms to invest in skill substitutability. Then the fall on the job specialisation is prejudicial to the productivity, in particular in the long run.

Keywords: matching; negative income tax; technological choices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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