dc.contributor.author | Kapička, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Neira, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-04T16:55:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-10-30 | |
dc.description.abstract | We study optimal tax policies in a life- cycle economy with permanent ability differences and risky human capital investments that have both an unobservable component, learning effort, and an observable component, schooling. The optimal policies balance redistribution across agents, insurance against human capital shocks, and incentives to learn and work. In the optimum, (i ) high- ability agents face risky consumption while low- ability agents are insured; (ii ) the optimal schooling subsidy is substantial but less than 100 percent; (iii ) if utility is separable in labor and learning effort, the inverse labor wedge follows a random walk; and (iv ) if the utility is not separable then the "no distortion at the top" result does not apply. The welfare gains from switching to the optimal tax system are about 1 percent in annual consumption equivalents. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Czech Academy of Sciences | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Union FP7 | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Center for Scientific Computing, CNSI | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | NSF | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 11 (4), pp. 271 - 309 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1257/mac.20160365 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 13-29370S | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 631738 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | DMR-1121053 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | CNS-0960316 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/39501 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | American Economic Association | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/20509 | |
dc.rights | © 2019 American Economic Association | en_GB |
dc.title | Optimal taxation with risky human capital (journal article) | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-11-04T16:55:32Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1945-7707 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from the American Economic Association via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | The working paper version is available in ORE: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/20509 | |
dc.identifier.journal | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-06-11 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-10-01 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-11-04T16:52:35Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-11-04T16:55:34Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |