Second-best income taxation with endogenous human capital and borrowing constraints

Bas, Jacobs; Yang, Hongyan

Second-best income taxation with endogenous human capital and borrowing constraints

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Datum

2010

Autor:innen

Bas, Jacobs

Yang, Hongyan

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http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-134326

Sammlungen

Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Publikationstyp

Working Paper/Technical Report

Publikationsstatus

Published

Zusammenfassung

We formulate a two-period life-cycle model of saving, labor supply, and human capital investments when individuals differ in ability and initial wealth. Borrowing constraints prevent individuals to optimally smooth consumption over the life-cycle and to optimally invest in human capital. We show that the optimal linear income tax is positive - even in the absence of any redistributional concerns. A progressive income tax is efficient because it relaxes borrowing constraints by redistributing resources from the unconstrained to the borrowing constrained stages of the life- cycle. Hence, consumption is smoothed better and investments in human capital increase. The progressive income tax is a second-best instrument to correct the non-tax distortion in the capital market. The equity-efficiency trade-off is therefore less severe when progressive income taxes mitigate capital market imperfections.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

330 Wirtschaft

Schlagwörter

labor taxation, human capital investment, credit constraints

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BAS, Jacobs, Hongyan YANG, 2010. Second-best income taxation with endogenous human capital and borrowing constraints

BibTex

@techreport{Bas2010Secon-13432,
  year={2010},
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  author={Bas, Jacobs and Yang, Hongyan}
}

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