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The Impact of Changing Skill Levels on Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxes

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Craig Brett () (Mount Allison University)
John Weymark () (Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University)

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The impact of changing an individual's skill level on the solution to a finite population version of the Mirrlees optimal nonlinear income tax problem with quasilinear-in-leisure preferences is investigated. It is shown that it is possible to sign the directions of change in everyone's optimal consumptions and optimal marginal tax rates in response to such a change.

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Keywords: Optimal income taxation; comparative statics;

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  1. Brett, Craig, 2008. "The effects of population aging on optimal redistributive taxes in an overlapping generations model," MPRA Paper 8585, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
  2. Alan Krause, 2008. "Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation with Learning-by-Doing," Discussion Papers 08/08, Department of Economics, University of York. [Downloadable!]
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