Optimal progressive taxation in a model with endogenous skill supply

Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Stylianos Asimakopoulos and Jim Malley

Working Papers from Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow

Abstract: This paper examines whether efficiency considerations require that optimal labour income taxation is progressive or regressive in a model with skill heterogeneity, endogenous skill acquisition and a production sector with capital-skill complementarity. We find that wage inequality driven by the resource requirements of skill-creation implies progressive labour income taxation in the steady-state as well as along the transition path from the exogenous to optimal policy steady-state. We find that these results are explained by a lower labour supply elasticity for skilled versus unskilled labour which results from the introduction of the skill acquisition technology.

Keywords: optimal progressive taxation; skill premium; allocative efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E32 E62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-07
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