Multiple Equilibria and Progressive Taxation of Labor Income
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This paper shows that in a one-sector real business cycle model with strong increasing returns in production, progressive taxation of labor income can stabilize the economy against sunspot ‡uctuations, even when the capital tax schedule is ‡at. This result is consistent with the U.S. tax code in which labor-income taxation is more progressive than capital-income taxation.
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