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In order to explore the optimal taxation of low-skilled labor, we extend the standard model of optimal non-linear income taxation in the presence of quasi-linear preferences in leisure by allowing for involuntary unemployment, job search, an exogenous welfare benefit, and a non-utilitarian social welfare function.In trading off more low-skilled employment against more work effort of higher skilled workers, the government balances distortions on the search margin with those on work effort.Positive marginal tax rates at the bottom may help to encourage job search if this search is taxed on a net basis.Lower welfare benefits and search costs tend to reduce marginal tax rates throughout the skill distribution.

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Paper provided by Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research in its series Discussion Paper with number 2002-57.

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• H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
• H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
• J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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