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Table 6 Changing the progressive tax scheme: effect on municipality characteristics

From: Tiebout sorting with progressive income taxation and a fiscal equalization scheme

   

Tax scheme

   

Baseline

More progressive

Linear

Housing price

p

1

13.331

13.293

13.361

2

13.352

13.348

13.277

Tax rate multiplier

t

1

0.828

0.816

0.818

2

1.137

1.075

1.213

Public consumption

g

1

12.606

13.094

11.672

2

17.407

18.576

16.047

Public expenditure

G/N

1

3.059

3.141

2.724

2

4.573

4.874

4.655

Population

N

1

142.934

139.534

200.272

2

217.066

220.466

159.728

Average income

Y/N

1

97.902

100.861

66.559

2

60.980

59.677

87.025

FES payment

FES

1

\(-\)1.787

\(-\)2.702

\(-\)0.139

2

1.456

1.969

\(-\)0.893

  1. “1” and “2” label the municipalities. Municipality 1 is defined as the municipality that inhabits the households with the low preferences for the publicly provided good (\(\alpha\)) and municipality 2 the households with high levels of \(\alpha\). Instead of using the municipality number, I often label the two municipalities ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ instead, according to their respective average income