The redistribution of trade gains and the equity-efficiency trade-off

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 p...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 44-2012)
1. Verfasser: de Pinto, Marco
Format: Arbeit
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2012
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:PDF-Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1867-3678
DOI:10.17192/es2024.0157