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Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Participation and Search Unemployment

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Etienne Lehmann () (CREST, IZA, Idep, Universite Catholique de Louvain)
Alexis Parmentier () (EPEE-TEPP - Universite d'Evry and Universite Catholique de Louvain)
Bruno van der Linden () (IRES, Department of Economics-Universite Catholique de Louvain, FNRS, ERMES-Universite Paris 2 and IZA)

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This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive taxation when individuals are heterogeneous in two exogenous dimensions: their skills and their values of non-market activities. Search-matching frictions on the labor markets create unemployment. Wages, labor demand and participation are endogenous. The government only observes wage levels. Under a Maximin objective, if the elasticity of participation decreases along the distribution of skills, at the optimum, the average tax rate is increasing, marginal tax rates are positive everywhere, while wages, unemployment rates and participation rates are distorted downwards compared to their laissez-faire values. A simulation exercise confirms some of these properties under a general utilitarian objective. Taking account of the wage-cum-labor demand margin deeply changes the equity-efficiency trade off.

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Paper provided by Institut d'economie publique (IDEP), Marseille, France in its series IDEP Working Papers with number 0805.

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Keywords: Non-linear taxation; redistribution; adverse selection; random participation; unemployment; labor market frictions.;

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D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information
H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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