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Taxes en Employment Subsidies in Optimal Redistribution Programs

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Beaudry, P.
Blackorby, C.

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This paper characterizes an optimal redistribution program when taxation authorities: (1) are uninformed about individuals' value of time in both market and non-market activities, (2) can observe both market-income and time allocated to market employment, (3) are utilitarian.

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Paper provided by UBC Department of Economics in its series UBC Departmental Archives with number 97-21.

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Date of creation: 1997
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Keywords: TAXES ; LABOUR MARKET;

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D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information
H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies

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