REDISTRIBUTION AND LABOUR SUPPLY Autores: Jorge Onrubia(a) Rafael Salas(b) José Félix Sanz(c) P. T. N.o 17/01 (a) Instituto de Estudios Fiscales y Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (b) Instituto de Estudios Fiscales y Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Address for correspon­ dence: Rafael Salas, Departamento de Análisis Económico I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Campus de Somosaguas, 28223 Madrid (Spain). Phone: 34 91 3942512, Fax: 34 91 3942561, E-mail: R.Salas@ccee.ucm.es. (c) Instituto de Estudios Fiscales y Universidad Complutense de Madrid. N.B.: Las opiniones expresadas en este trabajo son de la exlusiva responsabilidad de los auto­ res, pudiendo no coincidir con las del Instituto de Estudios Fiscales. Desde el año 1998, la colección de Papeles de Trabajo del Instituto de Estudios Fiscales está disponible en versión electrónica, en la dirección: >http://www.minhac.es/ief/principal.htm. Edita: Instituto de Estudios Fiscales N.I.P.O.: 111-01-007-0 I.S.S.N.: 1578-0252 Depósito Legal: M-23772-2001 INDEX 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE MODEL 3. APPLICATIONS TO ALTERNATIVE TAXES AND LABOUR SUPPLY 3. SPECIFICATIONS 3. 3.1. Proportional Tax Case 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3.2. 3.2. 3.2. 3.2. 3.2. The linear tax under different labour supply specifications 3.2.1. CES 3.2.2. The linear labour supply (Hausman, 1980, 1981) 3.2.3. The iso-elastic labour supply specification (Burtless and 3.2.3. Hausman, 1978) 4. CONCLUDING REMARKS — 3 — XXXXX ABSTRACT This paper explores the effect of personal income taxes on redistribution when labour supply reactions are taken into consideration. We find that classical non-behavioural results on redistribution are not necessarily satisfied in a more general behavioural framework. In this respect, we show that the relevant tran­ sition for measuring redistribution is not the transition from the initial post-tax to the final post-tax income distribution but the one from the more precise ini­ tial pre-tax to the final post-tax income distribution. In addition, we postulate necessary and sufficient conditions to ensure redistribution in this wider setting. We also find that the functional specification of the labour supply may condition final results. JEL Classification: H31, H23, D31 and D63 Key Words: Redistribution, inequality, taxation and labour supply Acknowledgements: This paper has benefited from support from the Eu­ ropean Commission Project #ERBCHRXCT980248 and the Spanish Ministry of Education Project #PB98-0546-C0202 and comments by Miguel Ángel LópezGarcía. Errors are our own. — 5 — XXXXX Instituto de Estudios Fiscales 1. INTRODUCTION This note explores the effect of taxes on redistribution when labour supply behavioural reactions are taken into account. In this respect, redistribution is measured in the classical way, defined in terms of the transition from pre-tax to post-tax income distributions. We prove that non-behavioural (static) standard results on redistribution are not necessarily fulfilled in a more general behaviou­ ral (dynamic) framework1 To this extent, correct redistribution analysis requires incorporation of behavioural effects induced by taxes. In this new setting, we have to distinguish among three different income dis­ tributions: (i) the initial pre-tax income distribution, which corresponds to gross incomes in the absence of taxes, (ii) the initial post-tax income distribution, which is the gross income dis­ tribution once changes in labour supply have been taken into conside­ ration as a result of tax change, (iii) the final post-tax income distribution, which reflects the distribution of initial post-tax incomes net of taxes. In exploring redistribution, this conceptual distinction is theoretically relevant as it implies that net income and tax liability are endogenously determined. With this framework, the relevant transition to measure redistribution is the one from the initial pre-tax to the final post-tax income distribution, and not the one from the initial post-tax to the final post-tax income distribution, as the static setting assumes. In this wider context, we postulate necessary and sufficient conditions to ensure redistribution. Moreover, standard Jakobsson-Fellman-Kakwani (JFK) results can be preserved under restricted conditions on the structure of the tax system and on the specification of the labour supply. As a result, we also conclude that labour supply specification matters and may influence the final redistributive results of a given tax reform. Therefore, testing the correct functional form for the labour supply would be a compulsory requirement in applied work. The plan of the paper is as follows. Section 2 sets the model and quantifies progressivity in terms of wage elasticities. Section 3 offers some applications to alternative tax structures and labour supply functions. Finally, section 4 concludes. 1 The seminal papers in static literature are Fellman (1976), Jakobsson (1976) and Kakwani (1977). Extensions to personal income taxes with positive thresholds can be found in Keen et al. (1996). As far as we know, Preston (1987, 1989) is the only reference using a dynamic approach. — 7 — 2. THE MODEL Assume a distribution of homogeneous individuals i=1,...,H with differences only in the exogenous gross wage rates W=(w1,...,wH), with the same non­ labour income mi (assumed initially to be zero). Assume the initial pre-tax income vector Y=(y1,...,yH) generated by yi=wiLi, where Li is the pre-tax labour supply and the distribution Y is confined to positive pre-tax income levels yi∈R++ ≡ (0,∞), as usual. Labour supply The labour supply adopts this general form: ∂L ∂L ≥ 0, ≥0 L(wi,mi ), ∂m ∂w i i Li = L, wi ≥ w where mi is non-labour income, initially assumed to be zero, and L is the maxi­ mum labour supply, obtained for w . This general form includes typical cases in the literature such as the CES (Stern, 1976 and Zabalza, 1983), linear (Hausman, 1980, 1981) and log-linear (Burtless and Hausman, 1978) specifications. These specific functional forms will be observed below. Tax structure The tax structure adopts the general form, T: R+→R, such that T(u) is conti­ nuous, non-decreasing and differentiable on u and standard assumptions in the literature. ∂T < 1, ∀u . These are the ∂u Redistribution Our aim is to generalise the main standard results on redistribution of JFK. In doing so, we use the concept of a local residual progression. According to these authors, a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of non-negative redistribution is that local residual progression is always less than or equal to one (and higher than or equal to zero), for every pre-tax income distribution. When comparing two tax systems, the necessary and sufficient condition for non-lower redistribution is that the residual progression should be reduced (and non-negative). — 8 — Instituto de Estudios Fiscales In order to allow for labour supply effects, we distinguish between the initial post-tax income vector2 Y'∈R++, generated by y'i=wiL'i, and the final post-tax income vector X' ∈R++, generated by x'i=yi'-T(yi'). L'i is the post-tax labour supply. With this setting, redistribution focuses on the transition from the initial pre-tax income distribution (Y) to X'. The redistribution effect is consistently defined with the Lorenz curve crite­ rion of second-order relative inequality dominance as proposed by Atkinson (1970). Definition Given any initial pre-tax and final post-tax distributions, Y and X' ∈RH++, a tax system is redistributive (progressive) if and only if X' ≥L Y; that is, if and only if X' weakly dominates Y: X'≥L Y ⇔ k ' x(i) ∑ µ(X') i=1 ≥ k y(i) ∑ µ(Y) ,∀k = 1,...,H i=1 where µ(X') and µ(Y) denote the mean of X' and Y, respectively. The terms x'(i) and y(i) are the ith smallest elements of the corresponding distributions. Making use of this definition we can state the following proposition, which is a natural extension of JFK: Proposition Given any initial pre-tax and final post-tax distributions Y and X' ∈RH++, a necessary and sufficient condition for a tax system to be non-negative redistri­ butive (progressive) is 0 ≤ ηx',y = ηy',y ηx',y' ≤ 1 That is, the local elasticity of x' with respect to y (local residual progression) is always not greater than one (and not lower than zero). As can be noticed, JFK's condition (0≤ηx',y'≤1) is a particular case when labour supply behaviour is discarded, so that ηy',y=1, which implies ηx',y=ηx',y'. It is worth noting that η y ', y is the key concept here, which captures labour supply behaviour changes. This key concept η y' , y can be expressed in terms of wage-income elastici­ ties as: η y',y = 2 η y',w η y,w Note that the initial post-tax income Y' corresponds to the actual tax base. — 9 — Since ηy',w =ηL',w +1, it can be also written as a function of wage-labour su­ pply elasticities: ηy',y = ηL',w + 1 ηL,w + 1 Note that these elasticities are expressed in terms of the exogenous pre-tax wage rate as it identifies individuals. This can be extended to characterise redistribution for two alternative tax structures. Given any initial pre-tax income distribution Y, assume two alternati­ ve taxes T' and T''. These tax structures generate, respectively, two initial post­ tax distributions, Y' and Y'', and two final post-tax distributions, X' and X''. Then, T' is more redistributive than T'' if and only if local residual progression from Y to X' is always not greater than the one from Y to X'': 0 ≤ ηx',y ≤ ηx'',y which is equivalent to: 0 ≤ ηy',yηx',y' ≤ ηy'',yηx'',y'' 3. APPLICATIONS TO ALTERNATIVE TAXES AND LABOUR 3. SUPPLY SPECIFICATIONS In the following, let us analyse the labour supply effects and the particular value of ηy',y for different taxes under different labour supply specifications. In general, we prove that the condition mentioned above for positive redistribu­ tion is difficult to satisfy, even in the homogeneous case. As an illustration of this, firstly we analyse the case of the proportional tax, for which standard zero­ redistribution is only guaranteed under restricted conditions. Secondly, we stu­ dy linear progressive taxation applied to alternative labour supply specifications in order to search for conditions that guarantee positive redistribution. 3.1. Proportional Tax Case We see that under very restricted conditions a proportional tax achieves non-negative redistribution with this tax behavioural framework. Initial pre-tax income yi is: w L(w , 0), yi = i i wi L, 0 ≤ wi ≤ w wi ≥ w — 10 — Instituto de Estudios Fiscales Post-tax labour supply Li' is: L'i L(wi (1 − t), 0), 0 ≤ wi ≤ w = L, wi ≥ w Initial post-tax income yi' is: w L(wi (1 − t), 0), 0 ≤ wi ≤ w y'i = i wi L, wi ≥ w Final post-tax income xi' is: x i' wi (1− t)L(wi (1− t), 0), 0 ≤ wi ≤ w = wi ≥ w wi (1− t)L As ηx',y' = 1, the necessary and sufficient condition to guarantee redistribu­ tion neutrality is ηx',y = ηy',y = 1. Hence, ηL',w = ηL,w . This stringent condition is satisfied in cases such as the log-linear labour supply specification and, when mi=0, in the cases of the Cobb-Douglas and the linear labour supply func­ tions. 3.2. The linear tax under different labour supply specifications Now we study the affine tax system as analysed by Atkinson and Stiglitz (1980), Atkinson (1995) and Hall and Rabushka (1995): T(y) = −Z + ty, Z ≥ 0 and1> t ≥ 0 This tax scheme will be examined below under three alternative labour su­ pply specifications: the CES, linear and log-linear. 3.2.1. CES The CES utility function is defined as follows: U(y,L) = y ρ + α(L − L)ρ α > 0, ρ < 1 from which the pre-tax labour supply L can be recovered as: L(wi, 0) = L (wi / α)σ wi + (wi / α)σ , wi ≥ 0 where L represents the maximum labour and σ = 1/(1-ρ) is the elasticity of substitution. — 11 — Post-tax labour supply L' is: L'(wi, 0) = L (wi(1− t) / α)σ − Z wi (1− t) + (wi (1− t) / α)σ , 0 ≤ wr ≤ wi where wr is the reservation wage. It can be proved that for any α>0, σ>0 (or ρ<1), Z ≥ 0 and 1 > t > 0, and wi ≥ wr, ηL',w > ηL,w So ηy',w > ηy,w Hence η y',y > 1 Positive redistribution is not guaranteed, as ηx',y'<1. Note also that under the proportional tax case, Z=0 and t>0 case, negative redistribution arises, unless σ converges to zero, which is the Cobb-Douglas case. 3.2.2. The linear labour supply (Hausman, 1980, 1981) Pre-tax labour supply L is: aw , 0 ≤ w ≤ w i Li (wi, 0) = i wi ≥ w L, where a>0 Post-tax labour supply L' is: aw (1− t) − bZ, 0 ≤ w ≤ w ≤ w' r i L'i (wi, 0) = i wi ≥ w' L, where b>0 and ' w < w' . It can be proved that for any a, b>0, Z > 0 and 1 > t > 0, and w ≥ wi ≥ wr, ηL',w > ηL,w = 1 So η y',y > 1 Nevertheless, positive redistribution is produced -between wr and the lowest of w and w*=2/b(1-t)- as: ηx',y = ηx',y'ηy',y < 1 — 12 — Instituto de Estudios Fiscales Note also that under the proportional tax case (Z=0 and t>0), the polar ca­ se of zero redistribution arises. In addition, in this case Z<0 implies negative redistribution (between wr and the lowest of w and w*). In general, for mi=m, the zero redistribution case is reached at Z=-m. 3.2.3. The iso-elastic labour supply specification (Burtless and Hausman 1978) Pre-tax labour supply L is: Awαmβ , 0 ≤ w ≤ w i i i Li (wi, mi ) = wi ≥ w L, where A, α>0 and β≤0 and mi>0. Post-tax labour supply L' is: A(w (1− t))α (m + Z)β , 0 ≤ w ≤ w' i i L'i (wi, mi ) = i wi ≥ w' L, ' where w < w' . It can be proved that for any A,α>0, β≤0, Z >0 and 1 > t > 0, and w ≥ wi ≥ 0, ηL',w = ηL,w = α So ηy',w = ηy,w Hence η y',y = 1 Positive redistribution is produced for Z>0 (between 0 and w ). Note also that zero redistribution arises under the proportional tax case Z=0 and that negative redistribution is induced under Z<0. Moreover, for any tax system (with non-negative virtual incomes), η y',y = 1 so ηx',y = ηx',y' (between 0 and w ) which is the JFK result under no-tax behaviour. 4. 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