THE

"Taxation, Heterogeneity and Employment"

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITE DE CERGY-PONTOISE 

 Organization address address: BOULEVARD DU PORT 33
city: Cergy-Pontoise
postcode: 95011

contact info
Titolo: Mrs.
Nome: Laurence
Cognome: Puechberty
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 1 3425 7268
Fax: +33 1 34 25 60 38

 Nazionalità Coordinatore France [FR]
 Totale costo 50˙000 €
 EC contributo 50˙000 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG
 Funding Scheme MC-CIG
 Anno di inizio 2012
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2012-09-01   -   2014-08-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITE DE CERGY-PONTOISE

 Organization address address: BOULEVARD DU PORT 33
city: Cergy-Pontoise
postcode: 95011

contact info
Titolo: Mrs.
Nome: Laurence
Cognome: Puechberty
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 1 3425 7268
Fax: +33 1 34 25 60 38

FR (Cergy-Pontoise) coordinator 50˙000.00

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labor    theory    taxation    participation    tax    solve    multidimensional    individuals    original    schedule    equality    economic    toolbox    optimal    heterogeneity    literature    screening    opportunity    margin    models   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The objective of this project is to study the proper design of benefit and tax programs that promote employment and reduce inequality when individuals are heterogeneous in several dimensions. To do so, we will develop original mathematical models some of which will relate optimal taxation theory to other strands of economic theory (e.g., modern labor economics) and to the literature about equality of opportunity, which lies between social choice theory and philosophy. The nature of the assumed unobserved heterogeneity between individuals is very important for the predictions derived from optimal taxation models. Optimal income tax problems typically restrict individuals’ heterogeneity to one-dimension: their innate ability.

Although incentives problems with multi-dimensional heterogeneity (a.k.a. multidimensional screening problems) are empirically relevant, they are notoriously very hard to treat. The THE project aims at (1) elaborating a toolbox to solve these problems and (2) developing a wide range of applications for this toolbox. To solve multidimensional screening problems, we propose to: (i) develop recent results obtained using a random participation framework, (ii) build up on the type aggregator technique and (iii) extend the techniques used in the literature on optimal transportation.

Beside these technical contributions, the project will allow us to address three original applied economic questions. First, what is the tax schedule over the entire earnings distribution that satisfies equality of opportunity? Second, what is the optimal tax schedule when there are both skill heterogeneity and gender-specific responses in terms of labor force participation decisions? Third, should workfare be used when labor supply is simultaneously modeled along the participation margin (decision to enter or not the labor market) and the intensive margin (i.e. people decide on their labor hours)?'

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