Taxing capital? The importance of how human capital is accumulated

This paper shows that in a life-cycle framework, the optimal tax on capital crucially depends on how human capital is accumulated. We focus on three cases common to the macroeconomic literature: (i) Learning-By-Doing (LBD), (ii) Learning-Or-Doing (LOD), and (iii) exogenous accumulation. First, we sh...

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Main Authors: Blandin, A. (Author), Peterman, W.B (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2019
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