Dokument
| Titel: | The redistribution of trade gains and the equity-efficiency trade-off |
| Autor: | de Pinto, Marco |
| Veröffentlicht: | 2012 |
| URI: | https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/es/2024/0157 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17192/es2024.0157 |
| ISSN: | 1867-3678 |
| DDC: | 330 Wirtschaft |
| Publikationsdatum: | 2024-01-03 |
| Lizenz: | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0 |
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| taxes, trade unions, heterogenous firms, unemployment benefits, income inequality, trade liberalization |
Summary:
The contribution of this paper is to derive an optimal redistribution scheme for trade gains in the case of government's objective function that explicitly accounts for equity-efficiency trade-off. The government pays unemplyment benefits (UB) either financed by a wage tax, a payroll tax or a profit tax paid by exporters only. Using a melitz-type framework with unionized labor markets and heterogeneous workers we show that there is a clear-cut ranking of the redistribution schemes in terms of welfare leve: 1. UB financed by a profit tax paid by exporters 2. UB financed by a wage tax, 3. UB financed by a payroll tax.
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