Tax effects on unemployment and the choice of educational type

dc.contributor.author	Alstadsæter, Annette
dc.contributor.author	Kolm, Ann-Sofie
dc.contributor.author	Larsen, Birthe
dc.date.accessioned	2011-11-22T15:11:34Z
dc.date.available	2011-11-22T15:11:34Z
dc.date.issued	2005
dc.identifier.issn	1892-753x
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11250/180503
dc.description.abstract	Abstract: This paper examines the effect of taxes on the individuals' choices of educational direction, and thus on the economy's skill composition. A proportional labour income tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in the economy. The government can correct for this distortion by use of differentiated tuition fees or tax rates. Keywords: Unemployment, matching, education, optimal taxation, tuition fees	no_NO
dc.language.iso	eng	no_NO
dc.publisher	Statistics Norway, Research Department	no_NO
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Discussion Papers;No. 419
dc.subject	Unemployment	no_NO
dc.subject	Education	no_NO
dc.subject	Optimal taxation	no_NO
dc.subject	Taxation	no_NO
dc.subject	JEL classification: J64	no_NO
dc.subject	JEL classification: J68	no_NO
dc.subject	JEL classification: H21	no_NO
dc.subject	JEL classification: H24	no_NO
dc.title	Tax effects on unemployment and the choice of educational type	no_NO
dc.type	Working paper	no_NO
dc.subject.nsi	VDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210::Economics: 212	no_NO
dc.source.pagenumber	28 s.	no_NO