Seminar
Optimal Taxation with Workforce: The Role of Bunching
Economics
| Speaker: | Craig Brett, University of Warwick |
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| Date: | Friday 19 May 2000 |
| Time: | 16:15 |
| Location: | Room 106 Streatam Court |
Further details
This paper explores the use of workfare as part of the optimal tax mix. When agents have preferences that are quasi-linear in leisure, unproductive workfare is optimal only if it is optimal for taxpayers of different types to be bunched at the optimum.