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Inter-Jurisdictional Competition for Firms: Jobs as Vehicles for Redistribution

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Robin Boadway () (Queen's University)
Katherine Cuff (Queen's University)
Nicolas Marceau (Universite Quebec a Montreal)

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Regions inhabited with an immobile population of disabled and able individuals compete to attract mobile firms that provide jobs. The redistributive goal of regional governments is to support the disabled, who cannot work. Able individuals may work, be involuntary unemployed because of frictions in the labour market, or choose to be voluntary unemployed. Labour force participation decisions depend on regional redistributive policies. Both the size of workforce and tax on firms affect profits and therefore, firms' location decisions. Allowing regions to engage in tax competition may be efficient. If regions cannot tax firms, they compete by implementing inefficient redistributive policies.

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Paper provided by Queen's University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 986.

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Keywords: Inter-Jurisdictional Competition Redistributive Policies Unemployment

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H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
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J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies

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  2. Robin Boadway & Katherine Cuff, 1999. "Monitoring Job Search as an Instrument for Targeting Transfers," Cahiers de recherche CREFE / CREFE Working Papers 71, CREFE, Université du Québec à Montréal. [Downloadable!]
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    • Boadway, Robin & Keen, Michael, 2000. "Redistribution," Handbook of Income Distribution, in: A.B. Atkinson & F. Bourguignon (ed.), Handbook of Income Distribution, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 12, pages 677-789 Elsevier. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Robin Boadway & Katherine Cuff & Nicolas Marceau, 2000. "Redistribution and Employment Policies with Endogenous Unemployment," Cahiers de recherche CREFE / CREFE Working Papers 121, CREFE, Université du Québec à Montréal. [Downloadable!]
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