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Income Taxation in a Life Cycle Model with Human Capital

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  • Michael Keane

    () (School of Economics and ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales)

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This paper examines the effect of labor income taxation in life-cycle models where work experience builds human capital. In this case, the wage no longer equals the opportunity cost of time - which is, instead, the wage plus returns to work experience. This has a number of interesting consequences.

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Paper provided by ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales in its series Working Papers with number 201117.

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Length: 43 pages
Date of creation: Jul 2011
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Handle: RePEc:asb:wpaper:201117

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