Arbeitspapier

Optimal Taxation and the Household

This paper analyses optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. It models the interaction between wage rates and variation in child care prices and productivities as determinants of across-household heterogene- ity in second earner labour supply. We find that individual taxation is welfare-superior to joint taxation in models that match the data on empirical wage distributions, on grounds of both efficiency and equity. The main reason for this is the inequity created by income splitting in the presence of a high degree of inequality in the primary earner wage distribution.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5845

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Thema
optimal taxation
labour supply
child care
household production
inequality

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Apps, Patricia
Rees, Ray
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2016

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

Datenpartner

Dieses Objekt wird bereitgestellt von:
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. Bei Fragen zum Objekt wenden Sie sich bitte an den Datenpartner.

Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Apps, Patricia
  • Rees, Ray
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2016

Ähnliche Objekte (12)