Income segregation from local income taxation when households differ in both preferences and incomes

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 270-299

  Schmidheiny, Kurt ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fiscal decentralization; Income segregation; Income sorting; Income taxation; Local public goods

Indexed keywords

INCOME; TAX SYSTEM;

EID: 33645063995     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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