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Workplace choice, commuting costs, and wage taxation in urban and adjacent rural regions
The Annals of Regional Science ( IF 1.709 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-26 , DOI: 10.1007/s00168-020-01003-4
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal , Peter Nijkamp

We analyze the impact of wage taxation on the workplace choices of and the commuting costs borne by individuals in an aggregate economy consisting of an urban and an adjacent rural region. This economy is inhabited by a continuum of individuals who are uniformly distributed with a total mass of one. These individuals choose whether to work in the urban or in the rural region. The wage is higher (lower) in the urban (rural) region. Our analysis leads to three findings. First, assuming that individuals work in the region in which their after-tax wage net of commuting costs is the highest, we compute the equilibrium number of workers in each region. Second, supposing that the rural region’s median voter works in the urban region, we determine the Nash equilibrium in taxes and ask whether either of the two regions ought to tax or to subsidize the wage. Finally, assuming that the rural region’s median voter works in the rural region, we solve for the Nash equilibrium in taxes and show that optimality calls for the urban and the rural governments to subsidize the two wages.

中文翻译:

城市及邻近农村地区的工作场所选择,通勤成本和工资税

我们分析了工资税制对包括城市和邻近农村地区的总体经济中个人的工作场所选择和个人承担的通勤成本的影响。这种经济居住着一个以个人总质量均匀分布的个人连续体。这些人选择在城市还是在农村地区工作。城市(农村)地区的工资较高(较低)。我们的分析得出三个发现。首先,假设个人在税后工资扣除通勤成本最高的地区工作,我们计算每个地区的均衡工人数。第二,假设农村地区的中位选民在城市地区工作,我们确定纳什税制均衡,并询问两个地区中的任何一个是否应该征税或补贴工资。
更新日期:2020-06-26
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