Optimal Income Taxation and the Labour Market: An Overview

Robin Boadway and Jean-François Tremblay

CESifo Economic Studies, 2013, vol. 59, issue 1, 93-148

Abstract: This article presents a survey of how optimal income taxation is influenced by labour market considerations. We begin with the standard supply-side optimal income tax model of Mirrlees, and outline the various extensions to that model. We then consider how optimal taxation is affected by various demand-side considerations in a full-employment setting, including endogenous wage rates, human capital investment, extensive-margin labour variation and its applications, minimum wages, and occupational choice. Various sources of involuntary unemployment are next considered, such as inability to work, long-term search unemployment, and temporary search unemployment. The latter raises the need for unemployment insurance as well as redistributive taxation. We conclude with a catalogue of unresolved issues. (JEL codes: H21, H23, J2) Copyright The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (9)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/cesifo/ifs008 (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:cesifo:v:59:y:2013:i:1:p:93-148

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://academic.oup.com/journals

Access Statistics for this article

CESifo Economic Studies is currently edited by Panu Poutvaara

More articles in CESifo Economic Studies from CESifo Group Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Oxford University Press ().